Context

Cutting

Description

Pic

Cat

East

North

Max Width

Max Length

Depth/Height

Layer

Overlies/Seals

Overlain/Sealed by

Cuts

Cut by

Abuts/Contiguous

Associated with

Hand FS

Typed FS

Any FS

PDF URL

Hand drawi

Ink drawing

F01000

AXIII

Rectangular quarrying hollow. Layer (1): topsoil. Layer (3): chipples and loose stones - immediately under layer one in its northern side. Layer (4): brown earth with clay and small stones (subsoil). Appears to be a rectangular hole, where quarrying has taken place working from natural fault lines. On removing half, the only finds have been one pebble and one flint fragment. A few pieces of burnt oolite were present in layer (3) - remarkably little when comparing this with ditch infills - and the lowest, layer (4), contained a lot of light coloured earth - not usual in the rampart ditches. There was no evidence to show any rampart tumble lying over the hollow, or having tumbled into the hollow, which must be part of the comparatively modern quarrying cm wide. Finds: One pebble and one flint fragment.

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270 cms diam

58 cms

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F01001

AXIII

Oval hollow cut into the bedrock, with sloping slides and a greater slope to its south-east edge. It contained a 'hoard' of 341 pebbles

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33 cms

64 cms

23 cms

Bedrock

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F01002

AXIII

Hollow east of F1000 hollow, part of the Period 3 rebuilding of the rampart. For a section drawing, see volume 1 (The Hillfort Defences), illustration 114, page 104. Layering:
Layer 1 top soil and roots
Layer 2 stones in earth under 1
Layer 3 thin layer of earth under 2
Layer 4 chipples
Layer 5 small stones under 4
Layer 5a smaller stones
Layer 6 brown chippley earth
Layer 7 small stones in yellow earth

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F01003

AXIII

Posthole. After removal of layer 6 one possible post hole shape showing, having been sealed by layer 6.

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58 cms diam

43 cms

Layer (2)

posthole of C7

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F01004

AXIII

Small posthole

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33 cms diam upper, 25 cms lower

34 cms

see C8

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F01005

AXIII

Posthole close to rear rampart, sealed by layer 7. There were no signs of burning around this posthole although a few small burnt stones were found in the infill.

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62 cms diam

49 cms

Layer (7)

Posthole of C8

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F01006

AXIII

Posthole near to rampart, sealed by layer 7.

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39 cms diam

51 cms

Layer (7)

Posthole of C7

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F01007

AXIII

Posthole near to rampart, sealed by layer 7 and close to the north edge of layer 9, through which it may have been cut. This post hole was filled with very tightly packed large stones, and some small burned stones.

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50 cms diam

27 cms

Layer (7)

Posthole of C8

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F01008

AXIII

Posthole sealed by layer 8.

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56 cms diam

43 cms

Layer (8)

Posthole of C8

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F01009

AXIII

Posthole. Only the lower part of this posthole was cut into the solid bedrock. The upper part had been dug into a fault/upheaval. Sealed by layers 6 and 8.

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56 cms diam

48 cms

Layer (6) & Layer (8)

Bedrock

Posthole of C8

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F01010

AXIII

Posthole.

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78 cms diam

51 cms

Layer (8)

Posthole of C7

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F01011

AXIII

Posthole. This posthole was dug through a fault and so the edges were poor. It also appeared to be 'bottomless' although the bottom as drawn was extremely hard packed.

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67 cms diam

61 cms

Layer (7)

Posthole of C7

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