Settlement north-west of Doddington (Doddington)
NT 981333. Doddington. A defended Iron Age/Romano-British settlement consisting of an irregularly circular area defined by two or three ditches containing a small apparently polygonal settlement. No interior detail visible. (1)
Settlement visible as a cropmark. A small square cropmark enclosure is visible immediately to the north. (2)
A multivallate lowland fort occupies the crest of a low spur which rises to a altitude of c. 45m OD and stands about 10m above the flood plain of the river Till. In its most developed form, the defences have consisted of three, and in places four, more or less concentric ditches. So far as can be judged, the fort seems originally to have been bivallate with overall measurements of c. 170m NNE-SSW by 135m WNW-ESE and an internal area of c. 1.0ha. At a later (?) stage a third, outer ditch appears to have been added. On the W side, this ditch bulges outwards so as to create an `annexe' or open space of some 0.25ha. The defences on the W side have been further strengthened by the addition of a fourth ditch. There appear to be two entrances into the fort; one in the NW sector and the other on the E [this is not correctly shown on Rog Palmer's plot].
Additional cropmarks visible within the main enclosure and also outside it to the N (c. NT 9805 3350) may indicate the existence of an overlying settlement, presumably of post-Iron Age date. (See HER 27606). (3)
On 1st March 1978, half of a rotary quernstone (of igneous rock?) was recovered by Tim Gates whilst fieldwalking. The find spot was at NT 9803 3341, which is to say at a point within the defences towards the N side of the fort. The quern was given to Adam Welfare for study. (4)
NT 981333 Settlement NW of Doddington; scheduled. (5)
Aerial photograph references. (6)
The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000296). (6)
Settlement visible as a cropmark. A small square cropmark enclosure is visible immediately to the north. (2)
A multivallate lowland fort occupies the crest of a low spur which rises to a altitude of c. 45m OD and stands about 10m above the flood plain of the river Till. In its most developed form, the defences have consisted of three, and in places four, more or less concentric ditches. So far as can be judged, the fort seems originally to have been bivallate with overall measurements of c. 170m NNE-SSW by 135m WNW-ESE and an internal area of c. 1.0ha. At a later (?) stage a third, outer ditch appears to have been added. On the W side, this ditch bulges outwards so as to create an `annexe' or open space of some 0.25ha. The defences on the W side have been further strengthened by the addition of a fourth ditch. There appear to be two entrances into the fort; one in the NW sector and the other on the E [this is not correctly shown on Rog Palmer's plot].
Additional cropmarks visible within the main enclosure and also outside it to the N (c. NT 9805 3350) may indicate the existence of an overlying settlement, presumably of post-Iron Age date. (See HER 27606). (3)
On 1st March 1978, half of a rotary quernstone (of igneous rock?) was recovered by Tim Gates whilst fieldwalking. The find spot was at NT 9803 3341, which is to say at a point within the defences towards the N side of the fort. The quern was given to Adam Welfare for study. (4)
NT 981333 Settlement NW of Doddington; scheduled. (5)
Aerial photograph references. (6)
The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000296). (6)
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MEASURED SURVEY, Milfield Geoarchaeology Project ; Archaeological Research Services
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