What is recorded here

Two round furnaces sat at the edge of a long turning gully, breathing fire through narrow flues while people worked metal on hard packed ground. Carbon dating places that activity between 400 and 54 cal. BC, long before the medieval burial ground and industry later crowded the same place. The gully cut through hillwash and one section crossed a metaled surface, suggesting a busy workshop rather than a casual camp.

While the bulk of the material from a complex excavation (03E1229) relates to a burial ground and industrial activity of the early medieval period, some later prehistoric features were recorded, particularly on the lower E-facing slope where a narrow NW-SE gully (L 15.6m; Wth 1.05m; D 0.6m) turned sharply SW (L 35.4m; Wth 2.1m; D 0.68m) at its S end. Two bowl furnaces (diam. 1.05m x 0.96m; D 0.29m: diam. 1.1m x 1.04m; D0.35m) are at its edge, one cutting into its fill. The furnaces have flues extending to the NW, are associated with a metaled surface, and provide C14 dates of 400-220 cal. BC and 356-54 cal. BC. The gullies are cut through colluvial hillwash deposits and at one point the NE-SW gully cuts a metaled surface. The gullies are filled with waterlogged marls and were sealed by hillwash. Further W some metaled surfaces (dims 5.5m x 2.5m; 2.5m x 1.3m) are probably associated. (Seaver 2009, vol. 1, 22-5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 20 December 2021

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