Enclosure west of Chatton (Tillside)
(Centred NU 03172867) Air photograph shows circular (slightly elliptical) crop mark, a (?) ditch enclosing about 2 acres. The ground slopes away gently on all sides. There is little, if any, surface evidence. (1)
NU 03172866. The site is upon a rise of farmland, the highest point being 30m to the north-west, and it is under pasture. (2)
Faintly visible. (3)
NU 033286. 'U' palisaded enclosure visible on aerial photographs. (4)
Circular ditched enclosure c.80m internal diameter, with an apparent entrance causeway on the east side and concentric palisade set in from the inner edge of the ditch. Excavated by R Miket. Site resembles late Bronze Age ringworks.
i) ditch 4.5m average width, V-profile. The 'causeway' was found not to exist in the position indicated by aerial photographs. Finds included a cup marked sandstone boulder, flint flakes and a pottery sherd of Romano-British type;
ii) Palisade slot 3m in from edge of ditch, 0.5m average width x c.0.4m-0.6m deep. Imprints of timbers 0.2m-0.3m diameter. Pottery recovered, possibly Neolithic;
iii) interior: scattered post-pits and small bowl furnace with metallic slag.
Finds indicate a number of periods of use on the site - later Neolithic/Bronze Age. Iron Age/Romano-British. (5)
Report of 1986/87 excavations by Miket. The finds indicate several periods of use of the site. Neolithic flintwork, Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, and a bowl furnace probably no earlier than the Romano-British period. Extreme paucity of local Iron Age and Romano-British pottery. The nature and date of the enclosure remained unclear after excavation. (6)
A circular ditched enclosure is situated on gently undulating ground at 85m OD. The enclosure is formed by a single ditch and is almost exactly circular in shape. It has an external diameter of 85m and an internal area of 0.5ha. Running within the ditch, which is estimated to be 4 to 5m broad, are faint traces of what could be a concentric line of palisade trench. A break in the ditch on the SE facing side seems to be the most likely position for an entrance. There are no recognisable traces of habitation in the interior. (7)
A circular ditched enclosure is situated on gently undulating ground at c.85m AOD. The enclosure is formed by a single ditch and is almost exactly circular in shape. It has an external diameter of 85m and an internal area of 0.5ha. Running within the ditch, which is estimated to be 4 to 5m broad, are faint traces of a concentric line of palisade trench. A break in the ditch on the south-eastern facing side seems to be the most likely position for an entrance. There are no recognisable traces of habitation in the interior. The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000297)(8a)
Additional aerial photograph references. (8b-d)
The comments by authority 7 are generally correct but fail to note a scatter of cropmark pits which lies near the northern side of the enclosure. The most convincing four pits all lie just ouside the enclosure ditch but many other pit like marks can also be seen, some of which fall within the enclosure. There is no dating evidence for these pits, which need not be contemporary with the enclosure. (8e)
NU 031 287. Circular ditched enclosure west of Chatton. Scheduled No ND/622. (8f)
NU 03172866. The site is upon a rise of farmland, the highest point being 30m to the north-west, and it is under pasture. (2)
Faintly visible. (3)
NU 033286. 'U' palisaded enclosure visible on aerial photographs. (4)
Circular ditched enclosure c.80m internal diameter, with an apparent entrance causeway on the east side and concentric palisade set in from the inner edge of the ditch. Excavated by R Miket. Site resembles late Bronze Age ringworks.
i) ditch 4.5m average width, V-profile. The 'causeway' was found not to exist in the position indicated by aerial photographs. Finds included a cup marked sandstone boulder, flint flakes and a pottery sherd of Romano-British type;
ii) Palisade slot 3m in from edge of ditch, 0.5m average width x c.0.4m-0.6m deep. Imprints of timbers 0.2m-0.3m diameter. Pottery recovered, possibly Neolithic;
iii) interior: scattered post-pits and small bowl furnace with metallic slag.
Finds indicate a number of periods of use on the site - later Neolithic/Bronze Age. Iron Age/Romano-British. (5)
Report of 1986/87 excavations by Miket. The finds indicate several periods of use of the site. Neolithic flintwork, Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, and a bowl furnace probably no earlier than the Romano-British period. Extreme paucity of local Iron Age and Romano-British pottery. The nature and date of the enclosure remained unclear after excavation. (6)
A circular ditched enclosure is situated on gently undulating ground at 85m OD. The enclosure is formed by a single ditch and is almost exactly circular in shape. It has an external diameter of 85m and an internal area of 0.5ha. Running within the ditch, which is estimated to be 4 to 5m broad, are faint traces of what could be a concentric line of palisade trench. A break in the ditch on the SE facing side seems to be the most likely position for an entrance. There are no recognisable traces of habitation in the interior. (7)
A circular ditched enclosure is situated on gently undulating ground at c.85m AOD. The enclosure is formed by a single ditch and is almost exactly circular in shape. It has an external diameter of 85m and an internal area of 0.5ha. Running within the ditch, which is estimated to be 4 to 5m broad, are faint traces of a concentric line of palisade trench. A break in the ditch on the south-eastern facing side seems to be the most likely position for an entrance. There are no recognisable traces of habitation in the interior. The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000297)(8a)
Additional aerial photograph references. (8b-d)
The comments by authority 7 are generally correct but fail to note a scatter of cropmark pits which lies near the northern side of the enclosure. The most convincing four pits all lie just ouside the enclosure ditch but many other pit like marks can also be seen, some of which fall within the enclosure. There is no dating evidence for these pits, which need not be contemporary with the enclosure. (8e)
NU 031 287. Circular ditched enclosure west of Chatton. Scheduled No ND/622. (8f)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1955; A S Phillips
EXCAVATION, Excavation at Horsedean Plantation, Chatton 1987; MIKET, R
EXCAVATION, Excavation at Horsedean Plantation, Chatton 1987; MIKET, R
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