Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692824

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO66NW 41 60900 65550

NO 608 655. Enclosure (Site), Inchbare: A remarkable palisaded enclosure, bounded by a single line of pits as for timber uprights, enclosing an area estimated at 23 to 30m in width by 200 to 240m in length, is visible on aerial photographs. Further short lines of post-pits are apparent to one side of the enclosure, and a number of larger spots where the crop is taller than average appear at the opposite side. (see NO66NW 49) The period (? Dark Age is suggested) and significance of these structures can only be revealed by excavation; they relate to no modern farming practices.

A number of curving broad lines also visible on the photographs represent traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation, the ridges now being levelled.

J K St Joseph 1976.

A review of the evidence now suggests that the palisaded enclosure, measuring approximately 300m by 20m, is possibly a pit-defined cursus.

H L Winton (RCAHMS) 25 March 1992.