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Site name | Sudbrook, Portskewett |
Site number | 1494 |
Burial codes | 2001 2004 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2127 2128 2143 2151 2181 |
8/700bc-100bc | A promontory fort whose north west defences were investigated in 1934. In an occupation area in the interior Iron Age B (South Western) sherds were found in the lower occupation level, ones much like those at Llanmelin (Site 1304), and animal bones (ox, pig, sheep/goat and red deer), a fragmentary quern stone, blue glass beads, iron nails, and a Roman bronze fibula of the late 1st or early 2nd Centuries AD. The upper floor yielded both hand and wheel made Iron Age B pottery types, and fragments of Roman-British wheel made wares including Samian. A single piece of human skull was found in the occupation debris, but it was not clearly stratified to upper or lower layer. |
Remains/Period | Y2 |
County | Gwent |
Region | SW |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 505 |
Y coordinate | 873 |
Bibliographic source | Nash-Williams 1935 |
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