Monument record M18317 - Bronze Age occupation at Hoveringham

Summary

SETTLEMENT? (Bronze Age)

Location

Grid reference SK 69100 46900 (point)
Map sheet SK64NE
District Newark
Civil Parish Hoveringham, Newark

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

In addition to the curvilinear enclosure ditch, trench 3 revealed evidence for occupation features, namely post holes, which may or may not be associated with the enclosure. One additional occupation feature, a gully, appears to pre-date the enclosure, and a post hole appears to post date it. The enclosure ditch circuit appears also to have been preserved / respected when the ditch itself had silted up as there is evidence for a continuous, shallow trench in the excavated section. This may prove to be a fence or palisade slot that replaced the enclosure ditch. Given the find of a sherd of hand made pot and a piece of cremated bone from 0010, it is probable that the finds of BA pot from the "trackway" ditch relate to the occupation activity adjacent to, or within, the curvilinear enclosure. … The rectilinear ditch appears to have measured 3m wide. Up to four phases were visible. Two finds of possible RB pottery just beneath the junction between ((0004) alluvial deposit) and ((0002) ditch fill) may be intrusive. (1)
See L1770 for "trackway" feature.


<1> TPAT, Dec 1993, Tarmac Hoveringham (THM): Archive Report, pp 8 - 11 (Unpublished document). SNT2139.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: TPAT. Dec 1993. Tarmac Hoveringham (THM): Archive Report. pp 8 - 11.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jan 19 2023 7:34PM

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