More information : [SU 8784 1095] Covered Way? - shown on plan of the Trundle. (1)
Covered Way 50' long running up to outer bank. It is covered over by
counterscarp; no sign of it within camp or elsewhere. (2)
This fragment of earthwork, obviously overlaid by the IA
counterscarp bank of the Trundle, comprises a shallow medial ditch
with low side banks. Only about 16.0m of it remains and it is in too
poor a condition to classify with any certainty. Surveyed. (3)
No change. (4)
(SU 8784 1095) In May 1995, RCHME carried out an analytical earthwork survey of the linear earthwork, in the course of an investigation of the causewayed enclosure (SU 81 SE 52) as part of the project to record Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic (5). As stated by earlier sources, the earthwork comprises a central ditch with lateral banks, extending at right angles away from the south-eastern side of The Trundle hillfort (SU 81 SE 21) for at least 50m. It is clearly overlain by the counterscarp bank, but does not continue into the interior of the hillfort; it seems therefore to be contemporary with an early phase of the hillfort. For some 15m immediately adjacent to the rampart, the earthwork is well preserved; the rest is almost ploughed-out.
The form of the earthwork and its stratigraphic position strongly suggest a late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age date.
For further details, see RCHME Level 3 client report and plan at 1:1000 scale, held in archive. (5) |