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Cutting

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F00006

AIII

Burial of piglet in depression. The area immediately south of the North Bastion was seen at first as a post hole, but clearance showed that it extended southwards and became a slot (the original posthole was recorded as F6a). As work continued in this area, a large number of bones appeared in a dark sticky layer with some charcoal underneath the rubble fill (ie. tumble from layer 6 or 7 dipping down into trough). In the centre of F6 a skeleton of piglet resting almost wholly (back legs on upper cobbling) on patch of large flat stones: these were fairly clearly intrusive into the feature F00006.

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roadsurface and layer 6

rubble

F00006a

period 4 layers

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F00006A

AIII

Post hole accompanying F00006
Layer (1) Fine yellow silt, mostly decayed 'meringue' with medium sized stones; compressed by weight of bastion wall from which it is sealed by a layer of dark silt/burned soil.
Layer (2) Large and medium stones, nearly all burnt. Most stones horizontal.
Layer (3) Yellow silt as layer (1) with some of the reddish soil from the stone fill between the 'meringue' and the wall of the bastion. This level presumably hollowed during the cleaning and cutting down for the second phase bastion.
Layer (4) Heavy brown soil and pea grit with some charcoal filling top of re-cut post hole.
Layer (5) Light brown soil with some stones filling re-cut post hole.
Layer (6) Packing of re-cut post hole. Burnt and unburnt medium and small stones, with very, very large stones at S side; some yellow silt between stones.
layer (7) Yellow/brown silt at bottom of re-cut post hole.
Layer (8) Reddish brown earth in inserted post hole. Large quantity of charcoal down line of post.(disturbed by tumbled stones).
Layer (9) Packed 'meringue' and unburnt and burnt small stones, packed tightly around the post, forming a cast of its shape. Identical to post hole F14. Cut away to West by cutting of large re-cut post hole.
Layer (10) Yellow silt similar to layer (1) and small stones.
Layer (11) Flat layer of medium large unburnt stones.

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11

Bedrock

bastion walls

slot F00006

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F00009

AIII

Possible posthole against the face of the south bastion, found as a void, but covered by a horizontal stone, with some rubble at the bottom

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F00010

AIII

Posthole. Layer (1) Brown soil with small stones and packing stones, some burnt in rectangle around edge, cut into Layer (2) fine loose yellow silt of decayed limestone with some medium sized and many small stones. Some charcoal throughout. Layer (3) Loose large packing stones with meringue and yellow-brown silt, some burning. Layer (4) Large burnt stones and burnt chipple. Flecks of meringue, most stone horizontal. Layer (5) Large unburnt stones in yellow silt.

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175 cms diam

127 cms

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F00011

AIII

This is a posthole of the northern palisade trench of period 2, which appeared at the edge of the period 3 road; it appears that the upper part of the posthole was reused in the final entrance, perhaps as a support for a shelter behind the passage. Layer (1): Loose yellow brown gritty soil with large stones - tumbled packing stones. Layer (2): Same but without large stones. Layer (3): Yellow crushed limestone.

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3

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F00012

AIII

Posthole of period 3, against inner corner of the south bastion, probably part of the gate. This forms the upper layer, F00010/1, of the major posthole of period 2

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F00014

AIII

Small rectangular posthole of period 3 set in recess in the south bastion. The posthole is partially cut into bedrock and partially into the infilled posthole F00010 of period 2. The fill is largely of charcoal and burnt soil

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F00010

bastion wall

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F00015

AIII

Very shallow posthole with a fill of loose yellow brown gritty earth with small stones.

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F00016

AIII

Post hole of two phases. The lower section belong to the southern palisade trench; the upper to a small posthole of period 3. This was cut through below bedrock but was not sealed by any of the layers above that. In particular, no road surface covered the post hole, which bordered on the south side of the mass of meringue, some of which seems to have found its way down the older hole as F00016(2). It appears that some of the surrounding ragstone may have worn off since the cutting of the post hole which would account for its shallowness when compared with the apparently corresponding post hole on the north side F00011. The post hole itself is well rounded in plan and well-cut with smooth sides.

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period 3 tumble only

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F00017

AIII

Posthole, part of the southern palisade trench

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Bedrock

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F00018

AIII

Small posthole against the edge of the southern bastion to the south of the entrance: is this part of period 2, exposed by the changed position of the rebuilding of the entrance? Layer (1): Dark earth with charcoal and stones. Layer (2): Dark earth. Layer (3): Pea grits with earth and stones. Layer (4): Stones with some grits and earth

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4

Bedrock

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F00020

AIII

POST HOLE   This post hole cut through - or abutted against the second layer of larger cobbles on the west side of the north bastion. However this layer of cobbles did not exist on the north side of the post hole where there was a layer some 3cm deep of a pea grit scatter.
Fill: Layer 1 Very loose yellow fill with tumbled packing stones
              and some charcoal.
     Layer 2 Crumbly yellow brown soil with small stones - no
              charcoal.
     Layer 3 Yellow clayey soil - no charcoal.

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F00021

AIII

Posthole in the meringue, appearing as a void about 30 cms in diameter in the burnt stone and meringue layers, approximately 205 cms deep, with charcoal at its base. The lower 45 cms of the void passed through unburnt material taken to be one of the marking-out banks which flanked the entrance.

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30 cms diam

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F00022

AIII

Posthole, about 34 cms diameter and 40 cms deep, with a filling of loose yellow gritty earth and small stones, approx

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F00023

AIII

Posthole about 35 cms diameter and 30 cms deep, between south palisade trench and the rear posthole of the entrance passage: filled with light brown gritty soil and small stones

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F00024

AIII

Posthole adjacent to F23 to the south west of the southern palisade trench

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F00025

AIII

Large posthole at the rear of the entrance. Layer (1) Brown soil with packing of medium and large burnt and unburnt stones. Layer (2) Yellow decayed limestone silt with some stones. A complete sheep's head in this layer

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F00026

AIII

Shallow posthole at the western end of the south palisade trench. Layer (1): Brown soil packed with medium stones. Layer (2): Pea grit with small stones.

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F00027

AIII

Large posthole at the inner end of the entrance passage, probably the support for the rear gate. Layer (1): Brown soil and large/medium stones - a few burnt. Layer (2): Yellow decayed limestone silt "cottage cheese" and medium stones. Layer (3) Yellow silt and pea grit. The lower jaws of a large boar in this layer.

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3

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F00058

AIII

Horizontal unburnt timber running east to west immediately below the meringue south of the entrance passage, sitting on the top of the marking-out bank.

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F00059

AIII

Vertical unburnt timber below the meringue to the south of the entrance, only 7 cms diameter: perhaps a revetting hurdle for the marking-out bank.

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F00060

AIII

Horizontal unburnt timber: compare F00058.

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F00062

AIII

Small posthole of period 3b, built against the bastion, filled with crumbly yellow soil with small stones chipples and some large ? fallen packing stones ? with some charcoal near top.

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F00063

AIII

Well formed deep posthole of period 3b, built against side of bastion, filled with Layer (1): Fine yellow brown silt with 'chipples' and medium sized burnt stones and charcoal. Layer (2): Burnt stone plus meringue in packing.

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2

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F00064

AIII

Posthole of period 3b, cut against southern side of bastion

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F00065

AIII

Posthole set against the north side of the bastion

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30 cms diam

64 cms

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F00066

AIII

Posthole of period 3b, cut against the northern bastion

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40 cms diam

35 cms

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F00070

AIII

Linear feature based on a fault varying 40/50cm wide containing:
a) Hard packed small stone and fragments.
b) Intersecting fault divides (a) from grey soil, looser larger stones, much burnt charcoal and one bone.
c) Looser and yellower brown earth and stones, bone, charcoal.
Section (b) taken down to depth of 6ft: still burnt limestone. Bottom not reached at this depth, and this feature was almost certainly natural: it demonstrates, from the finds in the fill, that the geological movements on the top of the hill have been active since the Iron Age.

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