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Site name Sudbrook, Portskewett

Site number 1494

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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

Query

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