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F00447

D3

Possible pit. In stripping an area of chipple in the north of D3 a small pit was discovered against the north section. This was very irregularily cut, and its function was not immediately clear. Fill;-medium-brown soil and many medium sized stones, with large number of flints (13), 2 bodysherds, and a quanitiy of animal bone, 121 small pieces, in very poor condition. Finds include, in addition, (1) Chalky flint scraper [no 287], roughly triangular, from bottom of top soil some 20cm to east of feature . (2)Blade from flake of ?obsidian? / flint [no 288], well stratified to eastern side of feature [CH72/ 7199, 7205, 7230-2, 7239].
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Layer (1)

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F00800

D3

Burnt area of flat stones, lying beneath tree, and hence rather churned up with roots. This proved to be an area of burnt tumbled stones south of and next to the hearth, F00801. Layers: (1): Burnt tumbled stones. (2): Earth below F00800(1). (3): Chipples and disturbed stones, from which a leaf arrowhead [CH72/ 2795] and a flint axe [CH72/ 2431].

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F00801

D3

Hearth. An area of upturned pink burnt stones formed a square, just north of F800. Max width: 60 cms; max.depth below top surface 30 cms. After removing edging stones and central hearth slab, it is apparent that a hole was cut in the upper rock layers, and the hearth slab laid - possibly being levelled with earth under it, and the edging rock slabs inserted around the edges. These vertical edges stood up above ground level, and ran down the sides of the hearth slab. Under layer (3) there was no burning on the bedrock at all, and the hearth slab was burnt and reddened only to less than half its thickness. Finds included: 3 body sherds, no fewer than 130 pieces of burnt clay (? oven material), 16 fragments of bone, and 22 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 2981-2, 7214-7, 7257-60, 7272].

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F00802

D3

Small posthole in south edge. Perhaps one of a circle around hearth. Infilled with a mixture of soil and small stones. A layer of chipples and yellow soil at the base. Finds: 3 small fragments of pottery and 4 of bone [CH72/ 6168-9, 7039]

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25 cms

23 cms

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F00803

D3

Suspected posthole, with an infill of dark soil. Finds included 5 fragments of bone and 5 small pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 6172-3, 7049]

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F00804

D3

Suspected initially to be a posthole, but its position on a joint line makes it unlikely: fill of soil and roots, and almost certainly natural. No finds.

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F00805

D3

Posthole with well cut conical sides, containing an upper fill of dark soil and large collapsed packing stones, and a lower fill of yellowish silty material. Finds: 3 sherds of pottery, a very large quantity of burnt clay (daub) - no fewer than 269 pieces - 54 fragments of bone, and 94 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 6174-7, 7035-7, 7090-2, 7132-3]

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58 cms

56 cms

posthole of A4

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F00806

D3

Posthole. Infill of large stones and dark earth in top third; then a layer of blue/grey leaching. Middle third was a chippley infill with stones. Bottom third was very light, wet, tightly packed chipples and powdered limestone. 2 bodysherds and 6 fragments of bone [CH72/ 6164, 7047-8, 7146]

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62 cms (top) -50 cms (bottom)

54 cms

posthole of A4

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F00807

D3

Small posthole. The upper fill is dark earth and small burnt chipples, and the lower fill of harder packed earth and chipples. The upper fill contained some medium-sized packing stones. No finds.

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25 cms

20 cms

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F00808

D3

Small posthole. Width: 25cms; depth: 20cms. The infill was medium stones and much dark soil and roots; a thin layer of lighter coloured chipples covered the base of the posthole. Finds included: 3 bodysherds, a bit of burnt bone, and 5 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 7050-2, 7124]

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25 cms

20 cms

part of B4

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F00809

D3

Large posthole at the south western end of structure A4. The upper half of the fill contained very many medium to small stones tightly packed together in dark earth. The lower half a few rather larger stones and some chipples, in a more silty soil. At the bottom yellowish silt. Finds: 6 bodysherds, 8 pieces of daub, 33 fragments of bone, and 12 small bits of charcoal [CH72/ 7013-6, 7040-2, 7063, 7127].

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60 cms

60 cms

posthole of A4

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F00810

D3

Small posthole between F00802 and F00807. The upper fill of this posthole contained dark earth with chipples, and one large and several small packing stones. The lower half of the posthole contained several medium stones and more chipples than earth. Finds included: 3 body sherds, 25 lumps of daub, 4 fragments of burnt bone, and a piece of charcoal [CH72/ 7064-6, 7069].

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25 cms

28 cms

posthole of B4

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F00811

D3

Posthole in N.E.of cutting D3. This was a well cut hole, with steep sides, and a flat base, with a mass of packing at the western side. The postpipe lay to the east, and was filled with darker earth. At the bottom a considerable spread of light brown soil and fewer stones. The posthole formed a line with 409 and 812, at the eastern end of structure A4. The finds included: a single bodysherd, 20 lumps of daub, 5 pieces of bone, and 5 bits of charcoal [CH72/ 7043-6, 7070-3].

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50 cms

41 cms

posthole of A4

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F00812

D3

This posthole was dug into a gull of soft limestone, making its edges hard to find, but there were some very large packing stones which lined the posthole edges. The upper half of the infill was of dark soil with large slabs; below the half-way point the soil became light brown, and the stones rather smaller. The very bottom of this hole may have been overdug into the soft limestone.

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74 cms

80 cms

posthole of A4

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F00813

D3

Small posthole. This posthole was infilled with small stones, chipples and earth, with remains of packing of chipples and earth on its sw side. Further packing stones were visible behind the section, protruding into cutting layer 1, the topsoil. Finds included: 3 bodysherds, 3 fragments of bone, and 4 bits of charcoal [CH72/ 7088-9, 7125-6].

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20 cms

17 cms

part of B4

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F00814

D3

Posthole smaller than expected - in a gull on fault. Infill as other small postholes in area at top, but bottom half all chipply with stones probably due to being dug in a gull.

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25 cms

35 cms

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F00815

D3

Posthole incorporating smaller posthole.This feature was sectioned suspecting it to be a large posthole for it showed on the surface as a depression with vertical burnt stones to one edge. A small posthole was discovered on cleaning, and the upper part of the hole was filled with large and small stones in dark earth. The lower part (2) of this small posthole was completely filled with light coloured chipples with a very definite sealing of dark earth. Another small posthole beside this, called layer (3). The finds included 5 sherds of pottery, 4 bones and 6 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 7130-1, 7150].

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70 cms

35 cms

part of B4

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F00816

D3

Area of tree root upheaval, immediately east of hearth F00801. This looks as though it could be a badly damaged hearth - disturbed by a tree root. On cleaning this area up, burning appeared - grey and pink stones and some probable edging stones as in F801. Although very disturbed and broken up, this could well be another hearth. A very broken burnt stone could have originally been a hearth slab as in F00801. From above this came pot, charcoal etc.
Unfortunately the upturned, vertical, possible edging stones produced no sign of burning, but the outer edging of F00801 were in their turn not burnt. We may therefore have lost the vertical inner edging stones in this feature. If this is a hearth, it is much inferior to F00801, and it appears to be a rebuilding after the abandonments of the posthole series around F00801: see below F00819.
F00800, F00801 and F00816 all seem to have been hearths or areas for fires within B4, which is excessive if this was simply a domestic building. After removing the tumble from above this, the actual burnt area of surface is a similar size to F801, although it is difficult to say whether it is square or rounded. Width; 90cm; depth:30cm.
iFnds included: 28 bodysherds, 18 fragments of bone, and 23 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 7250-3, 7273-5, 7312-3]

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F00817

D3

Posthole. (N.W. of hearth F00801). Layer (1): mostly earth, with large and small stones; two packing slabs. Layer (2): earth and chipples with no stones. Finds: 2 lumps of daub, 8 fragments of bone and 3 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 7277-9].

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22 cms

35 cms

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F00818

D3

Posthole immediately south of F00801. Infill as in posthole F00817. These two postholes appear to be contemporary with each other, and neither were obvious until the area around the hearth was cleaned.Other than the odd pink chipple and very small pink stones, there are no burnt stones, and certainly no grey burnt stones, from within the infilling of postholes F00817 and F00818. Finds: 3 fragments of bone and 3 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 7276-7]

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35 cms

38 cms

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F00819

D3

Posthole, to the east of hearth F00801. Small post within and below the upper burning of F00816. While it is possible that this posthole and F00816 are the same, and that what appeared to be a hearth in F00816 was in fact badly disturbed posthole edge packing which had been burnt, it is more likely that 819 was replaced by the hearth slab, in a rebuilding which abandoned the 4-post setting around F00801. All but the northern edge in the upper part had gone in tree root disturbance, but as shown in the drawing, the northern edge was complete up to the surface, and all the lower edges still existed cut into the bedrock. This then makes three postholes around the F00801 hearth, and although this is smaller in diameter than the other two, the surface level at the top of the posthole is the same as the other two. Disturbance running east from F00819 almost entire length of the cutting. Finds included: 4 bodysherds, 3 small fragments of bone and 2 pieces of charcoal [CH72/ 7309-11].

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30 cms

48 cms

Bedrock

part of B4

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F00821

D3

Small posthole in fault, inside ring of postholes, found under disturbance, forming one of inner circle inside small round house, B4. Section of fine soft chipples from gull material collapsed before drawing: No finds.

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15 cms

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F00822

D3

Very small posthole within round house B4 near hearth. No finds.

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20 cms

15 cms

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