Enclosure west of Chatton (Tillside)
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Description
....Circular ditched enclosure c.80m internal diameter, with an apparent entrance causeway on the east side and concentric palisade set in from the inner edge of the ditch. Excavated by R Miket. Site resembles late Bronze Age ringworks. i) ditch 4.5m average width, V-profile. The 'causeway' was found not to exist in the position indicated by aerial photographs. Finds included a cup marked sandstone boulder, flint flakes and a pottery sherd of Romano-British type; ii) Palisade slot 3m in from edge of ditch, 0.5m average width x c.0.4m-0.6m deep. Imprints of timbers 0.2m-0.3m diameter. Pottery recovered, possibly Neolithic; iii) interior: scattered post-pits and small bowl furnace with metallic slag. Finds indicate a number of periods of use on the site - later Neolithic/Bronze Age. Iron Age/Romano-British.... -
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Keys to the Past (Durham & Northumbria County Councils) -
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