Bedwin, O. (1991). Asheldham Camp - an Early Iron Age hill fort: the 1985 excavations. Essex Archaeol Hist 22. Vol 22, pp. 13-37.
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Asheldham Camp - an Early Iron Age hill fort: the 1985 excavations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Essex Archaeol Hist 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Essex Archaeology & History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 - 37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A series of trial trenches dated construction to the Early Iron Age. The ditch at that time was 3.6m deep; there was evidence of a later re-cut, dating to the late-eleventh or twelfth century AD. Beneath the bank was a well preserved old land surface; field examination of this soil indicated that there had been cultivation on the site prior to the building of the hill fort. Pollen analysis pointed to a pre-hillfort environment that was pastoral, dominated by grassland, and with little evidence for woodland in the vicinity. Trenches in the interior showed that up to 90% of the site had already been destroyed by nineteenth and early-twentieth century gravel quarrying. In one trench, some archaeological features did survive, in the form of pits and post holes dating to the Middle Iron Age. Some of these features contained substantial deposits of charred grain (mostly spelt and emmer) plus fragments of a large pottery storage vessel, and large pieces of charcoal derived from planks, stake tips and staves possibly from a small oak barrel. These remains are best interpreted as the debris of a burnt down granary. There are sections on `Flintwork' by Hazel Martingell (27), `Prehistoric pottery' by Nigel Brown (27--8), `Roman pottery' by Catriona Turner (29), `Saxon pottery' by Susan Tyler (29), `The medieval pottery' by Helen Walker (29--31), `Cereals and crop weeds' by Peter Murphy (31--5), a `Soil report' by Richard MacPhail (35), and finally a `Pollen analysis of the Iron Age land surface' by Rob Scaife (35--6). Au(adp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 Jan 2002 |
