Leach, P. (2003). Excavations at Hillyfields, Upper Holway, Taunton. Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist 145. Vol 145, pp. 57-82.

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Title:		 Excavations at Hillyfields, Upper Holway, Taunton
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Issue:		 Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist 145
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Series:		 Somerset Archaeology and Natural History
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Volume:		 145
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Page Start/End:		 57 - 82
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Publication Type:		 Journal
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Abstract:		 Report on the results of an excavation of selected areas in advance of development, and subsequent watching brief, on land known as Hillyfields, formerly part of the playing fields of Kings School, Taunton. Evidence of a small rural settlement dating from the Late Iron Age through to the end of the Roman period was uncovered. Indications are of a system of small fields laid out along the hilltop and farmed by a nearby community from the Iron Age into the early Roman period; a new arrangement of plots and other features then indicates a later Romano-British settlement based upon a system of small but fairly regular enclosures, although no clear evidence of structures was found. Evidence of cereal cultivation is present, and the artefact assemblage includes an iron bench anvil found with a small quantity of slag, a spindle whorl and other items found together within the terminal of a boundary ditch in what appears to have been a deliberate deposit. The site was abandoned around the late-fourth or early-fifth century, and there is no significant evidence of later land-use until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when agricultural enclosure and the quarrying of mudstone for brick-making are indicated. Includes a separately authored contribution on
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Author:		 Peter Leach
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Other Person/Org:		 Damaris D Dodds (Abstract author)
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Year of Publication:		 2003
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Agricultural Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
Rural Settlement Dating (Auto Detected Subject)
Slag (Auto Detected Subject)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
Cereal (Auto Detected Subject)
Iron Bench Anvil (Auto Detected Subject)
Romanobritish Settlement (Auto Detected Subject)
Watching Brief (Auto Detected Subject)
Spindle Whorl (Auto Detected Subject)
Earlyfifth Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Boundary Ditch (Auto Detected Subject)
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Created Date:		 08 Mar 2007