What is recorded here

Five thousand years before the ring-barrow appeared, a small rectangular chamber sat within that same ridge, its walls perhaps two metres eight across. People may have slept there, watched the sky or kept what they valued most before leaving the world behind. The chamber disappeared under later ditches and soil, yet it remains the oldest known address on the summit. House is not a grand palace but a quiet room where human life first shaped that place.

Situated on the summit of a N-S ridge. When first described in 1969 (SMR file) the earthwork presented as a large ring-barrow consisting of a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.5m NW-SE) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6.5m-7.5m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; int. D 0.6-0.7m; ext. D 0.8-0.9m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth of base 3-5.8m; ext. H 0.5m at NW to 1.2m at SE). The earthwork was damaged in 1988 and a subsequent excavation (E000510) in the years 1989-1993 revealed a complex of features including a possible Neolithic house, two hut-sites, two enclosures, two timber circles, and a ritual burial. In the final 1993 season the earliest fosse uncovered (ME011-040002-) was Neolithic in date and it was partly overlain by a small subrectangular structure (Wth 2.8m), which is interpreted as a possible Neolithic house. However, no diagnostic artefacts are associated with it and the structure was truncated by an Iron Age ditch. (Newman 1993d, 21) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 April, 2019

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