Element record L12147 - IA or earlier features at Kilvington

Summary

DITCH (Iron Age); PIT (Iron Age); POST HOLE (Iron Age); GULLY (Iron Age)

Location

Grid reference SK 79900 42999 (point)
Map sheet SK74SE
District Newark
Civil Parish Kilvington, Newark

Map

Type and Period (4)

Full Description

Relatively large pit like features. No finds from either. Intercutting pairs of sub oval pits, likely to be further components of the pit alignment to the W. Where they were cut into the orange sandy natural, an extremely pure clay lined the sides. Bank with rounded profile c. 0.4m high associated with the pit alignment. Pale grey clay, remnant of prehistoric ground surface. A narrow gully shared the orientation of the pit alignment. Trench 18, relatively high density of archaeological features. L shaped ditch, a gully branched off this. The ditch recut on one occasion. 12m S, a second ditch with parallel orientations. Two small pits or post holes. . At the S end of the trench a complex of related features. NE - SW ditch, U shaped recut c.2m wide. Two post holes abutted the N edge. 0.6m beyond, a parallel narrow gully. A pit, 1.2m in diameter, cut into the N edge of the latter. As well as animal bone, worked flint and shell tempered pottery were recovered. (1)
See L11597 for pit alignment to SW, note, this was considered potentially Neo.


<1> Pre-Construct Archaeology Linc, Apr 2000, Preliminary Analysis of the Results of an Archaeological Evaluation: Kilvington Opencast Mine, Nottinghamshire, pp 5 - 7 (Unpublished document). SNT2428.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: Pre-Construct Archaeology Linc. Apr 2000. Preliminary Analysis of the Results of an Archaeological Evaluation: Kilvington Opencast Mine, Nottinghamshire. pp 5 - 7.

Finds (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jan 19 2023 7:34PM

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