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Monument Number 1181832
Hob Uid: 1181832
Location : Oxfordshire Vale of White Horse Blewbury
Grid Ref : SU5450086100
Summary : Excavations undertaken in 1967 within the hillfort on Blewburton Hill (SU 58 NW 1) uncovered a ditch associated with Neolithic artefacts, including a polished stone axe. Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flints had turned up as unstratified finds in previous excavations also, although no associated features apppear to have been encountered on those occasions. The ditch in particular appears to have prompted inclusion of the site in a number of gazetteers of possible Neolithic causewayed enclosures. The site has been considered as part of the RCHME's Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic project. On the basis of the available evidence, it is impossible to state with any certainty that the ditch represents part of an enclosure. The Neolithic finds were previously recorded as part of the main hillfort record (SU 58 NW 1). See that record for a more detailed list of published and archival sources relating to Blewburton Hill. No Neolithic features could be identified on aerial photographs when the area was mapped by Lambourn Downs NMP.
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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Harding, DW. Blewburton Hill, Berkshire: Re-excavation and reappraisal.
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : RCHME: Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic.
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Source details : Cathy Stoertz/22-FEB-2000/RCHME: Lambourn Downs NMP
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Neolithic
Display Date : Neolithic
Monument End Date : -2200
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Ditch, Causewayed Enclosure, Lithic Scatter
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit, Conjectural Evidence, Find

Monument Period Name : Early Bronze Age
Display Date : Early Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -1600
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Lithic Scatter
Evidence : Find

Components and Objects:

Period : Neolithic
Component Monument Type : Ditch, Causewayed Enclosure, Lithic Scatter
Object Type : POLISHED AXEHEAD
Object Material : Stone

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : OX 205
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Oxfordshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 7609
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 58 NW 53
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1999-01-01
End Date : 2000-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1181832