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Site name Durrington Walls, Durrington
Site number 403
Burial codes 4005 4007 4009 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4033 4034 4043 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4153 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc A large sub-oval enclosure with a ditch and external bank separated at the north by a wide berm. Internal structures included 2 major circular buildings of several phases. There were entrances at the north west and south east. Post hole 79 at the south outer circle of phase 2A of the complex circular timber structure inside the enclosure opposite the south east entrance contained 3 fragments of human skull. Contemporary post hole fillings included much Grooved Ware type pottery and Beaker sherds, as well as flint tools (arrow heads, plano-convex knives, scrapers and retouched flakes).

RC: southern circle phase 2 BM-396 2000 +/- 90, BM-395 1950 +/- 90, BM-397 1900 +/- 90, phase 1 NPL-239 1810 +/- 148

Near the east entrance terminal, the right tibia of an adult male was found at the bottom of the enclosure ditch.

RC: from enclosure ditch BM-400 2050 +/-90, BM-399 2015 +/-90, BM-398 1977 +/-90,

Earlier occupation levels were found beneath the surrounding earthworks and produced plain bowls, leaf arrow heads and a polished flint axe associated with three radiocarbon dates.

RC: from occupation layers below earthworks Gro-901a 2625 +/-40, Gro-901 2634 +/- 80, NPL-191 2450 +/- 150

The digging of a trench in 1917 through the west bank uncovered a layer of charcoal and flints resting on the old surface line, and containing burnt bone, including at least one piece of human bone. In the charcoal was a Beaker sherd. This layer was covered by chalk lumps, rampart spread by cultivation. The evidence dates the rampart to the Beaker or post Beaker period.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 150
Y coordinate 437
Bibliographic source Farrer 1918, Crawford 1929, Stone, Piggott and Booth 1954, Piggott 1959, Wainwright 1967, 1968, Wainwright and Longworth 1971, Harding and Lee 1987, Richards 1990


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