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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 |
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