Description:
Iron Age bivallate hillfort overlying a Neolithic causewayed camp. The ditch was excavated in 1963.
Details:
A) Bivallate hillfort overlies Neolithic Camp.(SU06SE100).
B) Ditch averages 1.5m deep, counterscarp bank 1.1m to the SE is an unfinished rampart. Possible entrance to South. C) A trench was dug across the ditch by Desmond Bonney in 1963 and revealed that it was flat bottomed and 2.1m deep. The silts contained over 600 flint flakes.
Sources:
| X) AER 1415-6 County Archaeology Service, Tro |
| A) Victoria County History 1 1 261 1957 Grinsell, L.V. |
| B) Ordnance Survey Fldwk 1973 1973 Ordnance Survey |
| X) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 59, p185 |
| X) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 60, p127 |
| X) Archaeological Review Vol 2, p27 Council for British Archaeology |
Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office. |
