Birbeck, V. (2006). Excavations on the Old Ditch linear earthwork, Breach Hill, Tilshead. Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 99. Vol 99, pp. 79-103.

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Title:		 Excavations on the Old Ditch linear earthwork, Breach Hill, Tilshead
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Issue:		 Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 99
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Series:		 The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
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Volume:		 99
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Page Start/End:		 79 - 103
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Publication Type:		 Journal
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Abstract:		 Excavation and earthwork recording were undertaken of a Scheduled Monument at Breach Hill, Tilshead, where a substantial area of c. 1.57ha had been inadvertently stripped of topsoil during construction of a military track. Stripping had destroyed the previously upstanding bank of the earthwork and, in places, truncated the upper fills of the ditch. A smaller ditch parallel to the large ditch lay to the north of the bank. Excavations produced very little artefactual dating evidence for the construction/primary silting of either ditch. A Mid- to Late Bronze Age or later date is indicated for the monument, however, by comparison with similar monuments on Salisbury Plain. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating was also used. Other deposits included a pit or three-throw hole containing Late Mesolithic flintwork, a subsoil area which contained large quantities of worked flint, burnt flint and Beaker pottery, two Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age features, a separate subsoil which produced evidence of Romano-British activity, and several undated features. Specialist reports include
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Author:		 Vaughan Birbeck
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Year of Publication:		 2006
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Flint Burnt Flint (Auto Detected Subject)
Earthwork (Auto Detected Subject)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
PIT (Monument Type England)
Late Mesolithic (Auto Detected Temporal)
SHERD (Object England)
Early Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
Late Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
Flintwork (Auto Detected Subject)
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Note:		 [OS SU 015 465]
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Created Date:		 12 Jun 2006