More information : SY 54159048. Excavations were carried out on an IA/RB occupation site in 1959 and 1963-4. No post holes which could be related to buildings were noted but a number of unidentified wall-like structures running across the excavation trench at right-angles may well have been associated with dry stone hut bases, and in fact the dry stone base of a rectangular building measuring approx 22ft x 12ft which had been robbed down to floor level was found in 1963. A key-shaped oven was discovered with four post holes around it suggesting protection by a cover of some sort. Six crouched burials were uncovered along with a small cist possibly for child burial. A storage pit sealed by one of the burials contained sling stones and parts of two large jars comparable with ones occuring at Maiden Castle and suggesting a date in the first quarter of the 1st century AD. Most of the pottery found was Durotrigian and associated wares, although seven sherds of Glastonbury, a large quantity of late RB pottery and five fragments of decorated Samian were recovered. Three brooches, a bracelet, some counters and four coins of the 3rd to 4th century were found. (1,2)
Interim report on the excavation. (3,4)
A unique Carolingian silver obol of Lothar II was found during the excavation. (5)
Its authenticity proved by BM analysis. (6)
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