(NZ 07288281) Camp. (1)

An oval-shaped enclosure, approx 1 acre in area, formed by a low earth and stone bank, with an entrance on the east side. About 50ft beyond the inner bank, on the south and south east, is a second bank, almost ploughed out, with vague traces of an outer ditch. Traces of circular stone huts and courtyard walls visible within the interior, and a small rectangular hut overlying the inner rampart to the [?] of the entrance. Excavations 1955-57 indicated that the earliest settlement on the site, possibly 1st century AD, was enclosed by wooden stockades, which were replaced by stone walls, possibly in the late 2nd century. Occupation apparently continued to the late 5th or early 6th century. (2)

As described, but generally in poor condition the main enclosure being extensively mutilated, and little of the internal detail identifiable. The site is clearly defensive, steep natural slopes abutting the north and west sides, but the defences appear never to have been of the order of a pre-Roman hillfort. Resurveyed at 1/2500. (3)(4)(5)

Dated by radiocarbon to c.580 B.C. from a sample taken from the palisade trenches. (4)

Finds from the excavations included a coin of AD 119, Samian ware and sherds of Romano-British coarse pottery from 2nd to 4th century in date. Some post-Roman sherds (late 5th or early 6th century) were also found. (5)

Interior difficult to understand and is waterlogged even in summer. The only saddle quern from this area is from this site; also rotary querns and other finds. Site visible on aerial photographs. (6)

Palisaded enclosure/settlement, securely dated by carbon-14 to 510+/-40bc. Three roughly concentric palisade trenches overlain by two stone-faced ramparts, the innermost contained Romano-British pottery. (7)

Huckhoe; palisades, defended settlement, Romano-British settlement. Inner twin palisade trenches and single outer palisade trench of earliest settlement - 6th century BC [?], lie beneath stone walls of second phase. Later Romano-British settlement. Roman occupation from 1st century BC to 4th century BC [AD?]. Two possibly 14th century rectangular buildings. Finds from excavation in Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne. (8)

Egg-shaped enclosed area, dictated by promontory position. (9)

Huckhoe, 2nd century Romano-British iron working site. Smithing hearth and slag remains. (10)

Huckhoe had a lengthy Roman Iron Age occupation. A curvilinear stone-walled settlement occupied through Roman Iron Age replaced a twin-palisade enclosure on same alignment with radiocarbon date of 568+/- 40bc. Radiocarbon date from outer palisade timber of 584bc+/-80 (840-435BC) (GaK-1388). (11)

Scheduled. (12)

Additional summary report of excavations made for the year 1958. (13)

Scheduled as a palisaded enclosure, defended settlement and Romano-British settlement. (14a)