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Details of site on Pastscape A Late Neolithic hengiform monument, comprising a penannular enclosure formed of 13 contiguous pits or ditch segments, open to the northeast, and with an internal diameter of around 7 metres. The site is part of a complex of monuments clustered around the Dorchester cursus (SU 59 NE 5). It was excavated in 1951 in advance of gravel extraction. Most of the segments had holes at their bases, though there was reportedly no evidence that they had held uprights. 21 cremation deposits were found, 12 of them within the central area. Two sherds of Peterborough Ware were found in the pit fills. "Site V" excav. 1947. A cremation cemetery consisting of a causewayed ditch with external bank & an entrance-gap on NW, containing 21 cremation burials, prob. late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Each segment of the ditch had a post-hole cut into its floor. Full report to be pubd. by Ashmolean Museum "during 1948". (1) Inf. as above, : plus:- Ditch consisted of 13 segments; in the floor of each segment, with two exceptions, was a hole. No direct evidence of date was found, but the site is probably contemporary with Sites II, IV & VI. [Oxon. 46 SW 9, 10 & 12] [SU 56915978]. (2) Class I in `Classification of Henge Monuments in G.B'. (3) Dorchester V. SU 570 957 (sic). Listed by Kinnes as a Neolithic ring ditch with cremation deposits in the enclosure and the upper ditch fill. (4) Listed by Harding and Lee as a segmented ditch circle with possible 'mini-henge'. (5) Cropmark remains of a small Neolithic Hengiform monument seen at SU 5691 9578. The feature consists of a sub circular enclsoure defined by a single ditch with a diameter of 9m and an entrance to the north. The site lies 6m from the south-western ditch of the Dorchester Cursus (SU59NE 5). This feature was mapped at 1:10,000 scale for the RCHME: Thames Valley NMP (Morph No.TG.371.24) (6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society Oxoniensia Arch.Notes 1947 XI-XII Page(s)164 (2) by R J C Atkinson, C M Piggott and N K Sandars 1951 Excavations at Dorchester, Oxon: first report. Sites I, II, IV, V and VI, with a chapter on henge monuments (3) General reference Ref. as T.2 p.94. (4) by Ian Kinnes 1979 Round barrows and ring-ditches in the British Neolithic British Museum occasional papers no.7 Page(s)19 (5) by A F Harding ; with G E Lee 1987 Henge monuments and related sites of Great Britain : air photographic evidence and catalogue BAR British series1 (1974) - Site 152 175 Page(s)244-247 (6) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment Fiona Small/02-APR-1993/RCHME: Thames Valley NMP |
Posted by Chance5th February 2012ce |
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