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Appendix 1
Specialist Reports
Flint Alison Dickens
Eight pieces of worked flint (120g) were recovered from seven different features.
Only one was burnt. Other than as a background indication of activity from the
Neolithic to Bronze Age periods this assemblage in isolation does not add to the
conclusions of the 71 pieces found in Phase 1. The full assemblage requires a small
amount of additional analysis.
Early Prehistoric Pottery Mark Knight
The excavation produced a small assemblage of 18 sherds of earlier prehistoric
pottery weighing 703 g. The bulk of the assemblage was made up of a single large rim
fragment that weighed 200g; the rest of the assemblage comprised medium sized
fragments with a mean sherd weight of 29.6g. The condition of the material was good
and most of the sherds were made of a hard, durable fabric constructed out of fossilrich
clay. Feature sherds included seven rim and three decorated fragments and all of
the pieces belonged to very large diameter thick-walled vessels.
The assemblage came from three large pit features and, with the exception of a single
rim/upper collar fragment from a Collared Urn, consisted of Deverel-Rimbury type
sherds.
Feature Context Number Weight Fabric
1242 2069 2 33 1
1245 2106 7 286 1
1248 2146 1 200 1
1254 2158 2 24 1,2
1254 2168 2 6 1
1254 2170 1 16 1
1254 2171 1 44 1
1254 2171 2 76 1
Totals: 7 18 703z 2
Table 1: Assemblage Composition
Pit F. 1242 produced two sherds, one of which appeared to have been burnt. The burnt
sherd had a slight curvature and a flattened rim-like edge. The material from pit
F.1245 included lumps of pottery and briquetage that were very difficult to tell apart.
Its seven identifiable pieces (including a squared rim) differed only in that they had
internal as well as external surfaces. Pit F.1254 produced four definite rim fragments
including one that had been perforated post-firing. Three of the rims were typical
Deverel-Rimbury types (x 2 flattened expanded and xl rounded internally expanded).
The fourth rim fragment belonged to a Collared Urn and was by comparison with the
rest of the assemblage recognisably abraded. One of the flattened rims was decorated
with a deep vertical groove which was incised so deeply that the sherd had snapped
along its line. A body sherd from the same context also had this attribute. The biggest
sherd, another rim (internally bevelled), came from pit F.1248 and it also had a deeply
incised vertical groove along one of its broken edges.
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