An Iron Age enclosure and Romano-British features at High Post, near Salisbury

Andrew B. Powell

An Iron Age enclosure and Romano-British features at High Post, near Salisbury
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 December 2011
Pages
130
ISBN
9781874350576

An Iron Age enclosure and Romano-British features at High Post, near Salisbury

Andrew B. Powell

Archaeological works at High Post near Salisbury have confirmed the presence of an Iron Age hilltop enclosure on the southern margins of Salisbury Plain. The enclosure was bounded by a deep V-shaped ditch in association with a wide zone suggestive of an internal bank. More significantly, lying beneath the line of the bank was a large spread of mostly articulated animal bone, dating to the Early Iron Age. The Iron Age occupation of the enclosure was represented by round-houses, pits and post-holes containing evidence of domestic waste. The enclosure was abandoned during the Middle Iron Age and remained unoccupied until the late Romano-British period. Pits, hearths and post-holes of this period were recorded both within and outside the enclosure. Other features related to this period included a possible shrine and a corn drying oven which appeared to have been utilised into the start of the post Romano-British period. - See more at: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/publications#sthash.rAqM5mRe.dpuf

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