List of Figures

Figure 1: Location of site (view PDF).

Figure 2: Aerial photograph showing site in 1957.

Figure 3: Blackstone Rock from the north.

Figure 4: Location of trenches (view PDF).

Figure 5: Pre-Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 6: Excavation area looking south (1973).

Figure 7: Excavation area on west side of enclosure (1977).

Figure 8: Key to Iron Age phase plans (view PDF).

Figure 9: Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 10: Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 11: Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 12: Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 13: Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 14: Iron Age phase plan (view PDF).

Figure 15: Inner enclosure ditch (south side).

Figure 16: Inner ditch (1012) adjacent gateway.

Figure 17: Inner ditch butt-end on south side of entrance.

Figure 18: Inner enclosure ditch (0601) section (view PDF).

Figure 19: Periods 3.1 to 3.3 defences (view PDF).

Figure 20: Gateway looking into enclosure (1977).

Figure 21: Central post setting (1015) at front of gateway.

Figure 22: Palisade II.

Figure 23: Outer enclosure ditch 1014: view of section.

Figure 24: Outer enclosure ditch 1014 section (view PDF).

Figure 25: Pit 1036.

Figure 26: Pits in pit group 2: sections (view PDF).

Figure 27: Pit 0098.

Figure 28: Pits in pit group 3: sections (view PDF).

Figure 29: Pits in pit group 5: sections (view PDF).

Figure 30: Pit 0246.

Figure 31: Ring-ditch (0237): possible hut or barrow.

Figure 32: Plan of ring-ditch 0237 (view PDF).

Figure 33: Test Trench 1 section showing features outside the main enclosure (view PDF).

Figure 34: Measured flake scattergram (view PDF).

Figure 35: Flint (view PDF).

Figure 36: Bronze Age pottery (view PDF).

Figure 37: Prehistoric pot sizes.

Figure 38: Iron Age pottery (view PDF).

Figure 39: Iron Age pottery (view PDF).

Figure 40: Iron Age pottery (view PDF).

Figure 41: Briquetage (view PDF).

Figure 42: Ceramic weight (view PDF).

Figure 43: Iron objects from pit 0098 (view PDF).

Figure 44: Iron brooches (view PDF).

Figure 45: Iron objects (view PDF).

Figure 46: Rotary quern.

Figure 47: Whetstone (view PDF).

Figure 48: Calibrated radiocarbon date.

Figure 49: Trackway down to river from north side of the Blackstone enclosure.

List of Tables

Table 1: Buildings and other structural elements based on posts.

Table 2: Quantification of artefacts.

Table 3: Lithic assemblage.

Table 4: Measured flakes, proportion of WP, BB and LG body colour (source material).

Table 5: Site distribution of flint by period of feature.

Table 6: Quantification of prehistoric pottery by fabric.

Table 7: Prehistoric pottery samples selected for thin-sectioning and petrological analysis.

Table 8: Correlation of significant form-types to fabric-types by number of identifiable vessels.

Table 9: Frequency of diagnostic form-types by rim diameter size.

Table 10: Frequency of vessels by fabric and rim diameter.

Table 11: Quantification of Iron Age pottery by fabric within deposits.

Table 12: Number of Iron Age vessels by form and context.

Table 13: Thin-sectioned briquetage and fired clay.

Table 14: Quantification of briquetage by feature.

Table 15: Quantification of Roman and later pottery by period.

Table 16: Quantification of Roman and later pottery by fabric-type.

Table 17: Worked stone objects.

Table 18: List of contexts containing charred plant remains.

Table 19: Charred plant remains from early prehistoric contexts.

Table 20: Charred plant remains from pits in the northern part of the enclosure.

Table 21: Charred plant remains from pits in the central part of the enclosure.

Table 22: Charred plant remains from pits in the southern part of the enclosure.

Table 23: Charred plant remains from postholes and post-pits.

Table 24: Charred plant remains from ditches.

Table 25: Charred plant remains from gullies.

Table 26: Charred plant remains from scoop features.

Table 27: Cereals.

Table 28: Samples selected for reassessment.

Table 29: Re-identifications of the samples chosen for reassessment.

Table 30: Reassessment of Keepax (1979) identifications.

Table 31: Burning properties of the wood species represented in the charcoal assemblage.

Table 32: Summary of animal bone.

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