NEOLITHIC AND LATER PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE OF THE AVON VALLEY 221 
KEY 
\ Route of pipeline 
* = Site (numbered) 
227 i) Archaeological 
z features 
Sey Compound 
WY Built-up area 
5 
ae Site 1 
= Reservoir 
OUD 
‘157 
Fig. 2. The pipeline between Durrington reservoir and the radio station, showing site locations 
It was filled with a dark yellowish-brown silty clay 
and contained a very large amount of burnt flint 
(195 pieces weighing 4.38kg), but no evidence of 
flint working or other kinds of waste material. The 
average size of the burnt flint was far larger than in 
any other feature excavated along the pipeline. 
The earliest feature recorded was pit 165, a 
shallow cut into the chalk (Figure 3) directly north 
of the Neolithic henge monument (Figure 2, Site 2). 
It contained worked flint, animal bone and 20 
sherds of Grooved Ware pottery. The large quantity 
of struck flint from the pit included seven scrapers, 
