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Excavations at Hog Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton,Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Ann Ellison ,
Philip Rahtz ,
P. C. Ensom ,
R. L. Otlet ,
D. F. Williams  and
P. Wilthew
Ann Ellison
Affiliation:
Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit, PO Box 363, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Philip Rahtz
Affiliation:
The Old School, Harome, Helmsley, North Yorkshire
P. C. Ensom
Affiliation:
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1XA
R. L. Otlet
Affiliation:
Carbon-14/Tritium Measurements Laboratory, Nuclear Physics Division, Building 10.46, AERE, Harwell, Oxon
D. F. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH
P. Wilthew
Affiliation:
Ancient Monuments Laboratory, Fortress House, 23 Savile Row, London W1X 2HE
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Abstract

A segment of earlier Bronze Age arable landscape incorporating isolatedround barrows on the high chalk spur of Hog Cliff Hill became the chosenlocation for a later Bronze Age earthwork of considerable dimensions. Thearea excavated within the bank and ditch was densely occupied by two majorphases of buildings of timber construction, lasting into the earliest IronAge. Sometime during the early Iron Age the oval enclosure was replaced by amore substantial one which partly followed its line and contained a seriesof unusual structures comprising dry-stone flint banks or wall-footings. Thesite was subsequently abandoned, the land probably being returned toagricultural use, until the Roman period when the agger of the Roman roadfrom Dorchester to Ilchester was constructed across the earthwork.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , 1987 , pp. 223 - 269
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1987

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