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Fig. 5 Section Through the Middle Bronze Age Waterhole 
some gravel and charcoal. No artefacts were 
recovered. 
Pits 
There were eight large pits, seven of which 
clustered on either side of the gap between the 
ditches to the south of waterhole 421; the eighth lay 
0.6 m to the west of ditch 784 and 32 m from its 
northern terminal (Figures 3 and 9). The pits were 
broadly similar but differed in details of dimension 
and profile. Recuts were fairly common, but more 
often than not these took the form of shallow scoops 
rather than full scale clean outs. Although infill 
deposits differed, a relatively simple sequence of 
fills indicates infilling by natural erosion and 
weathering rather than through deliberate 
backfilling. Only pit 369 contained middle Bronze 
Age pottery, although all lay within the area of the 
middle Bronze Age enclosure and respected the 
enclosure ditches and the waterhole, suggesting 
broad contemporaniety. 
Pit 345 (Figure 9) was circular in plan and bowl- 
shaped in profile, having a flat base and steep 
slightly convex sides. It measured 0.75 m in 
diameter and 0.2 m in depth. The pit was filled by a 
mid brown silty clay (345) containing occasional 
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pieces of gravel and moderate amounts of sand. A 
bowl-shaped recut 0.57 m in diameter by 0.1 m in 
depth cut the fill, and was filled by a light grey silty 
clay (343) containing occasional pieces of rounded 
gravel. Neither fill contained artefacts. 
Pit 348 was circular in plan and bowl-shaped in 
profile, having a flat base and steeply sloping 
slightly convex sides (Figure 9). It measured 0.75 m 
in diameter by 0.2 m in depth. The pit was filled by 
a mid brown silty clay (347) containing moderate 
amounts of gravel and a little sand. A bowl-shaped 
recut 0.45 m in diameter by 0.1m in depth cut the 
fill, and was filled by a light grey silty clay (346) 
containing occasional pieces of rounded gravel and 
burnt limestone rubble. 
oy 295 
Structure 297 
Fig. 7 Structure 297 
Pit 351 was circular in plan and bowl-shaped in 
profile, with a flat base and steeply sloping sides 
(Figure 9). It measured 0.55 m in diameter by 0.16 
m in depth. The pit was filled by a mid brown silty 
clay containing moderate amounts of gravel (350). 
A bowl-shaped recut 0.42 m in diameter and 0.12 m 
in depth cut the fill; it was filled by a light grey 
silty-clay containing occasional rounded gravel 
(349). Neither fill contained artefacts. 
Pit 356 was oval in plan and saucer-shaped in 
profile, having a flat base and shallow steeply 
sloping sides (Figure 9). It measured 0.7 m in 
length by 0.55 m in width and 0.05 m in depth. It 
was filled by a grey-brown silt (355) containing 
some gravel and sand. No artefacts were recovered 
from the fill. 
Pit 365 was circular in plan and U-shaped in 
profile, having a flat base and near vertical sides 
