124 THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE 
featured sherd being a small rimsherd of 
indeterminate overall form. Most of the sherds, 
(42) came from pit 613 with further examples from 
pits 609, 428, 655 and 751. The association of the 
material with a carinated bowl (see SHELL 5 
below) in pit 613 would suggest that this is an 
early Iron Age fabric. 
SHELLS: Shelly ware. An orange-brown ware 
with a brown core, similar to SHELL4 but with a 
sparser distribution of inclusions. The paste 
contains an ill-sorted sparse to common frequency 
of shell, some fragments up to 8 mm with occasional 
rounded red iron. A small group of 12 sherds was 
found, of which six derive from a flared wall, 
carinated bowl (Fig. 17.14). All the sherds came 
from pit 613. Typologically the bowl would fit into 
the early Iron Age period. 
SALI1: Sandy with limestone. A black sandy 
ware of fine to medium texture with a sparkling 
appearance. At x20 magnification the paste shows a 
moderately well-sorted, common frequency of 
rounded to sub-angular quartz and a_ sparse 
frequency of ill-sorted limestone. The latter 
comprises small fragments of oolitic conglomerate 
up to 5mm in size, discrete ooliths, fine grained 
limestone rock and occasional fossiliferous matter. 
Represented by a single small rimsherd from pit 
613 and thus associated with the carinated bowl 
noted above. 
SALI2: Sandy with limestone. A_ black, 
moderately hard ware with a sandy texture. At x20 
magnification the paste shows a sparse scatter of 
rounded quartz (less than 0.5 mm) rare flint and 
occasional fine limestone and shell or voids, 
generally less than 2 mm in size. Represented by 
just two bodysherds with an external burnish from 
posthole 718. 
Medieval and Later 
A small collection of nine medieval and eleven 
Post-medieval sherds was recovered. The medieval 
sherds, all Minety ware, were unstratified or from 
the plough furrows. The Post-medieval-Modern 
sherds came from the ditches bounding the plough 
and furrow to the west and from contexts (601) and 
(315). 
Catalogue of illustrated sherds 
From the ditched enclosure (northern ditch) 
1. Bucket-shaped, cordoned urn. The cordon has 
finger-depressed decoration whilst the external rim 
is marked with diagonal slashes. The vessel wall has 
been perforated at least three times, with one hole. 
above the cordon, one below and one uncertain. 
Fabric: FLINT1. Ditch segment 383 (372/373). 
2. Small vessel with plain walls and a simple 
undifferentiated rim. Mid brown in colour with a 
dark grey interior/core. Fabric: GROG. Ditch 383 
(373). 
3. Bucket-shaped urn with expanded, flat-topped 
rim. Fabric: SHELL 1. Ditch segment 387 (393) 
4, Small thin-walled bodysherd with faint traces of 
tooled decoration. Probably from a Globular Urn. 
Fabric: FLINT2. Ditch segment 387 (389). 
5. Small urn or jar with an expanded rim defined 
with a thumbed groove at the junction of the rim 
and wall. Diameter uncertain. Black in colour with 
a brown core/interior. Fabric: SHELL1. Ditch 
segment 387 (393). 
From the ditched enclosure (eastern ditch) 
6. Thinner walled vessel with curving walls, black 
in colour throughout. The exterior rim surface has 
been finger smoothed and the upper wall is 
decorated with spaced finger depressions. Fabric: 
SHELL2. Ditch segment 366 (368). 
7. Vessel with a slightly splayed wall and squared off 
rim. Angle slightly uncertain. Orange-brown in 
colour with a dark grey core. Fabric SHELLI. 
Ditch segment 366 (367). 
From Waterhole 421 
8. Bodysherd from an urn decorated with 
diagonally applied strips. Fabric: GROG. (481). 
9. Bucket-shaped cordoned urn with finger-pressed 
decoration on the cordon and external rim edge. 
The rim is internally expanded. The vessel is 
brownish-black to orange-brown in colour. Fabric: 
GROG. (419). 
10. Small jar with a simple undifferentiated rim, 
slightly bevelled. Brown in colour with a dark grey 
interior and core. Fabric: SHELL2. (419). 
11, Thick-walled bodysherd with diagonal slashed 
decoration with a possible hint of finger-tipped 
decoration below. Dark brown black in colour, 
fabric SHELLI. (418). 
12. Vertically walled vessel with a_ simple 
undifferentiated rim. Decorated with a single 
horizontal line of finger depressions below the rim. 
Black in colour. Fabric: SHELLI. (418). 
13. Bodysherd with a slight carination decorated 
with finger depressions? above the carination 
(orientation uncertain). Dark grey-black in colour. 
Fabric: SHELLI. (418). 
