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height and flanked at the sides and around the upper end by a ditch. It is of weathered
and rounded profile and appears to be of some antiquity, although it must be later than
the internal quarry ditch itself. The well-defined ditch appears to mark it out as different
from a midden or mound of casual accumulation, even though this possibility must be
signposted as immediately west of it is a rectangular building (Fig 13 c). This latter is visible
as a depression 24m in length and 8m wide and 0.6m deep fronting onto the internal
quarry ditch. Two cross-divisions indicate the presence of three cells or bays.
Figure 13 The southern reach of the main enclosure boundary with earthworks within
and set along the lip of the internal quarry ditch. North to top.
Less than 5 m to the west of this, a complex of features span the ditch slope and floor
(Fig 13 d) which are at least partly enclosed by a bank and ditch that evidently originally
formed three sides of a square. Two sides have been cut through on the valley floor,
possibly by some of Stanford's excavation trenches that were located here (Fig 26, site I:
above). The earthwork is sharp with a proud profile, the bank 4.5m wide by 0.5m high
with an external ditch of similar proportions and its appearance suggests that it may be
relatively recent in date. Within it and on the inner slope of the internal quarry ditch, is a
platform that may have held a structure.
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