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Site name Little Solsbury Hill Camp, Bath

Site number 1480

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8/700bc-100bc In a domestic area within the northern rampart of this 20 acre hill fort were the remains of huts and hearths. The pottery was mostly of Iron Age A, with only 4 sherds of Glastonbury type from the secondary occupation. In some of the deeper post holes there were foundation deposits of sherds. In the packing of hearth H2 (in Areas I-III) part of a human mandible was found, and 2 molars possibly from the same jaw were 0.6m away (1955). The hearth was from a secondary construction stage, overlying post hole 7. Another (?)hearth H3 was constructed with a seeming foundation deposit of bones of a young sheep or goat covering the toothed end of an antler comb embedded in clay mixed with earth, over the shaft of which a flat horizontal slab was placed. This was luted with clay to 4 flat stones set in a crude semi-circular clay sausage, 2 vertically set and 2 sloping and supported by clay.

Remains/Period Y2

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 768

Y coordinate 679

Bibliographic source Dowden 1957, 1961

Query

Site name	Little Solsbury Hill Camp, Bath
Site number	1480
Burial codes	2001 2004 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2053 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2151 2181
8/700bc-100bc	In a domestic area within the northern rampart of this 20 acre hill fort were the remains of huts and hearths. The pottery was mostly of Iron Age A, with only 4 sherds of Glastonbury type from the secondary occupation. In some of the deeper post holes there were foundation deposits of sherds. In the packing of hearth H2 (in Areas I-III) part of a human mandible was found, and 2 molars possibly from the same jaw were 0.6m away (1955). The hearth was from a secondary construction stage, overlying post hole 7. Another (?)hearth H3 was constructed with a seeming foundation deposit of bones of a young sheep or goat covering the toothed end of an antler comb embedded in clay mixed with earth, over the shaft of which a flat horizontal slab was placed. This was luted with clay to 4 flat stones set in a crude semi-circular clay sausage, 2 vertically set and 2 sloping and supported by clay.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	768
Y coordinate	679
Bibliographic source	Dowden 1957, 1961