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Details of site on Pastscape Earthworks of a supposed ancient 'camp' on Tog Hill. The site appears to comprise a low boundary bank, probably Medieval, and several tracks. (AREA ST 7300 7210) "Camp". (1) "Tog Hill Camp" A mound has been thrown up almost parallel to the brow of the hill with a deep ditch on the escarpment side, and a shallow ditch on the other side. (2-3) There is another slight ditch more to the west. (4) A mysterious earthwork. Whatever it is, it is not a camp, and the ditch is too small. (5) These earthworks fall in a rough semi-circle around the end of a shallow re-entrant. They cannot be directly approached, the fields are under corn, but are readily visible and would appear to be Md field ways and lynchets. They are certainly, as Crawford says, not part of a camp. Of minor significance. (6) Area ST 730721: The 'ancient earthwork' on Tog hill described by Playne and noted by Witts (sources 2-3) appears to comprise a low boundary bank, probably medieval, and several tracks. (7) |
Posted by Chance14th October 2012ce |
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Monument No. 205027 Details of site on Pastscape A surface scatter of flints on Tog Hill was investigated in 1959 and 1961. Over a thousand worked flints were recovered and are now in Bristol City Museum. The bulk of the material is of Mesolithic date, with later periods represented by arowheads, a plano-convex knife and two flakes struck from polished axeheads. ST 738735. A flint chipping site on Tog Hill, investigated by Marochan, Reid, Sykes and Whittle in 1959 and 1961, has yielded over a thousand worked flints, all now in the possession of Bristol City Museum. The greater part of the material is Mesolithic, with an indeterminable precentage of more recent work, including ten Neolithic-Bronze Age arrow-heads, a plano-convex knife and two fragments struck from polished axeheads. Occupation appeared to have been most intense late in the Mesolithic period, in the Maglemosian tradition, and the absence of hearths, and rarity of burnt flints, indicated summer-time occupation of the site only. (1) |
Posted by Chance 14th October 2012ce |
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