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Other 
14. Thick-walled urn with an internally expanded 
rim decorated with slashes on the exterior face. 
Black in colour throughout. Fabric: SHELLI. Pit 
688 (691). 
15. Everted rim jar with finger tipped decoration on 
the interior of the rim. Fabric: SHELLI. (353). 
Early Iron Age 
16. Flared wall carinated bowl, patchy red-brown to 
grey in colour with a dark grey core. Fabric 
SHELLS. Pit 613 (616). 
The Flint 
by Hugo Lamdin-Whymark 
A total of 18 flints and a single piece of burnt 
unworked flint was recovered from the excavation 
(Table 1). The flintwork is in reasonable condition, 
but a few pieces exhibit post-depositional edge 
damage. The majority of flints exhibit a heavy 
white cortication and one piece is iron-stained 
orange; a side scraper exhibits different levels of 
white cortication on the flake surface and retouch 
scars, suggesting reworking. A few flints exhibit 
thick, unabraded, white cortex, indicating that the 
raw material is chalk flint. 
The flint flakes and cores recovered all exhibit 
platform edge abrasion and appear to have been 
relatively carefully removed. The lack of 
diagnostic artefacts hinders dating, but the 
technological traits suggest a Neolithic or early 
_ Bronze Age date for the majority of pieces; one 
_ fine snapped blade may date from the Mesolithic. 
The majority of flints were recovered from middle 
Bronze Age features, indicating that the flintwork 
was probably residual. 
The Stone 
by Ruth Shaffrey 
The worked stone is unremarkable, consisting of 
only a probable weight and a polished pebble. The 
weight is limestone (681) pierced by a hole 
measuring 10 mm in diameter. The quartzite 
pebble was found in a Bronze Age pit (1750) along 
with a human cranium and femur and has been 
used as a polishing stone resulting in one very 
smoothed and curved surface. A large quantity of 
burnt, unworked limestone rubble was also 
retained (Table 2) and is fully listed by context and 
weight in the archive report. This material was 
friable suggesting that it had not been used for 
cooking and the majority of it came from 
miscellaneous undated pits lying to the north and 
east of the middle Bronze age enclosure, although 
some material was found in the fills of the enclosure 
ditches and the waterhole. 
Table 2. Burnt unworked limestone rubble from 
Middle Bronze Age contexts 
Context Lithology Descrip 
Burnt rubble 
Burnt rubble 
Burnt rubble 
Limestone 
Limestone 
Limestone 
Burnt rubble 
Burnt rubble 
Burnt rubble 
Limestone Burnt rubble 
Limestone 
Limestone 
Limestone 
Table 1. The flint assemblage by context 
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