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North Stoke (Promontory Fort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
   
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Posted by thesweetcheat23rd February 2014ce |
Lansdown Flint Working Site (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Images |
 
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Posted by thesweetcheat 23rd February 2014ce |
Lansdown Race Field Barrows (Round Barrow(s)) — Images |
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Posted by moss31st December 2013ce |
Lansdown Flint Working Site (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of site on Pastscape Flint working site with evidence of working from the Palaeolithic to Bronze Age. (Area ST 716702) Flint Chipping Floor. (It is assumed that this is one of the Mesolithic sites referred to in Arch. NL, 5 no 5, Sept 1954, 74). (1) This area is under pasture; no further information. Some of the Falconer collection is in Monkton Coombe School, Bath, vaguely provenanced. (2) ST 717702 An area strewn with scrapers, flakes and cores, which includes a site at ST 716699. This is part of a field extending into wood and Further Slate at ST 718698 (flint working site ST 76 NW 13). All these areas are considered to be parts of one site. See plan with ST 76 NW 35. (The sites collated by Tratman have collections derived from surface finds; the periods represented by typology range from Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic through Neolithic to Bronze Age). (3) |
Posted by Chance14th October 2012ce |
Lansdown Golf Course Barrows (Round Barrow(s)) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of Barrow on Pastscape Possible barrow sites to the North of the Roman camp at Lansdown, now part of a golf course. [Area ST 7140 6910] Some irregular mounds to the north of the possible Roman Camp at Lansdown. [ST 76 NW 19]may be the remaians of a small group of barrows, partially ploughed down. (1) The area referrd to now forms part of a golf course. The irregular mounds are no longer visible. (2) |
Posted by Chance 14th October 2012ce |
North Stoke (Promontory Fort) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of Hillfort on Pastscape The earthwork on Little Down, North Stoke, is a single ramparted hillfort, triangular in shape with a curved base on the east consisting of a bank and ditch terminating at the north and south on the escarpment which falls away almost precipitously. The entrace is in the middle of the eastern side. (2-4) There is a second, outside bank, south of the entrance. (5-6) Scheduled as an ancient momument. (7) This is a promontory fort utilising strong natural defences on all but the east side where the wide, flat approach necessitates a strong defence. Here an irregular spread bank with outer ditch and in part a counterscarp bank, crosses the spur. The irregularity of the bank may have partially resulted from stone robbing. The ditch shows three stages of development, separated by the entrance way and a large bank dividing the southern half. South of the entrance the ditch is 2.4m deep, with a berm between it and the counterscarp bank, South of this the ditch is 1.7m deep, with a short section of counterscarp bank and berm, and becomes perceptibly shallower towards the natural escapement. North of the entrance the ditch averages 0.8m deep with no trace of counterscarp bank. The foregoing strongly suggests that the defence was never completed. The berm between bank and ditch could never have resulted from attempts at destruction and as an original feature it is without parallel in completed Wessex hill-forts. Surveyed at 1/2500. (8) The gap in the centre of the eastern side is almost certainly modern, but there appears to be a sort of out-turned entrance at the north end of that side. An unpublished excavation by Mr Gardner of Kingswood School and the late F A Shore has proved that on the east side there was an outer bank and ditch, as described by Witts (3 above), though nothing of it is now visible. (9) Fort (NR) (10) The interior of Littledown Camp is cultivated, the rampart is degraded and surmounted by a stone wall. Artifical defences are only present on the east side, the ditch here being up to 3m deep and the top of the bank about 4m from the ditch bottom. There are traces of a counterscarp south of the simple entrance at centre of the east side, and VCH (4) shows other earthworks, now destroyed by ploughing, north of this. Two building foundations, at the rear of the north and south ends of the east defences, were under plough when visited in 1973. No dating evidence was found but they are probably post-medieval agricultural buildings. (11) Additional references, plan, illus. (12) |
Posted by Chance 14th October 2012ce |
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