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were two short curved lengths of gully and several post-holes.
Hut 2: A second Iron Age hut circle was found east of. enclosure 1
andcutting its upper fill.. This later circle: was..13:m in diateter
with twb entranceS; on the south-eest and south sides. The northern
half of the'hutwas cobbled with liniestone.slabs and one entrance
may have given access to the cobbled area specifically. Further
gulleys have been located to the north of hut 2 but are as yet
unciefinech All the Iron Age features are:Associated.with-Coarse-i..
handmade.and,moetly. shell-tempered pottery, The-forms are simple
bucket shapes with plain, often squared off tims.' There are.a few,
sherds of finer, dark, -burnished. Provisionelly the ceremics fit'
best into an Early-Mid'.Iron Age context.
Area 2: A'trial trench was cut across a building plead= in,
the settlement.nucleus 300 m west.of area 1. 'This showed that the
platform consisted of an accumulation Of imported limestone, writh
evidence of walls.and cobbled'surfaces.: A ditch' enclosing the .
platform contained 1 century AD Tottery. The platform itself had
Occupation material through to the 4 century AD.,
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Excavation.will continue throughout 1980.
The Unit is particularly grateful to the help and cooperation
given by the.AmeyRoadstone Corporation and the Cole Valley Gravel
Company; in part'icular Mr Gordon Plummer anciMr Gtaham,Poultert also
the tenant' Iarmer Mr Vincent Gammondi and the Manpower Services
ComMission.'
Warwickshire
13. WASPERTON Simon Palmer
The Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit carried:out a trial.
excavation on 'behalf' of Warwick Museum during a three week period
in March 1979 The site (SP 265 585) south of the village of
Wasperton, lying-on the, second gravel terrace east of the Avon, was
on the southern.periphery of an extensive ctopmark complex (Fig. 115)..
'This complex appeats to represent a nucleated settlement within a
definable territory 7 the Avon' to the west,. Thelsford Brook tb the
east and pit alignments to the north and south.
primary objectives of the work,were to assess the archaeo-.
logical and enviionmental potential of the complex'and- to suggest a.
strategy-of wOrk if ana when.planning permission forthe extraction
gravel is'granted...
A small amount of excavation:was Undertaken On-the immediately
threatened Part of the site. This. involved investigating' a small
portion of the southern.pit'alignment.at.a point where.it appeared
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