Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist 150

Remains of a Bronze Age field system were uncovered during a watching brief for the construction of a flood relief channel at Hillfarrance, Somerset. Sections of three silted ditches were exposed, with a shallow pit uncovered at one terminal. This pit contained burnt stone, pottery, waterlogged wood and worked timber. One of these timbers, a section of forked oak, has been interpreted as a possible representation of a human figure. Palaeoenvironmental evidence from the pit and ditch fills have contributed to an understanding of the area at the time the field system was in use. Includes separately authored contributions on

Report on excavations and building recording carried out at Cleve Abbey, Washford, Somerset during 1995 to 2000. A large foundation, interpreted as part of a church preceding the standing structure, was found below the south transept. Excavations in and around the cloister revealed medieval burials and surfaces, and features associated with the post-Reformation use of the site as a gentry house and later farm. Detailed recording of the standing fabric was carried out in the south transept, the south range, the farmhouse and parts of the east and west ranges. Accounts of their features and building history are presented, together with a new series of architectural records of these structures. The fabric of the gatehouse is discussed and a new account of its complex structural history is offered. It is argued that much more of its primary thirteenth-century fabric survives than has hitherto been recognised. The groups of later medieval sculpture on its walls appear to have been reused from a different context. Includes

including a transcript by Anita Travers

Note on a collection of flint and chert artefacts collected from fields around the village of Ash Priors, to the northwest of Taunton. The findspots of artefacts were recorded. A large quantity of the artefacts from a cluster of findspots to the northwest of the village are likely to be Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age in date. Other artefacts include material of Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic types.

Note on a medieval piscina revealed during alterations and repairs to the south chapel of All Saints' church, Trull.