Whitehall: iron age pot and enclosure ditch

by Jeremy Cooper

Five days of test pitting ended yesterday. Pits were dug in the Iron Age Field or IAF (better known as the villa car park) …

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and The Paddock just up the hill from the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (labelled ASC) …

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Test pit 4 in the IAF proved to be the most interesting and soon became a fully-fledged  trench …

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Iron age pot was found in it …

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… and the enclosure ditch that Steve has been hunting at last put in an appearance …

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Additional Volunteers

We need to expand our team of enthusiastic and committed volunteers to fulfil a variety of roles and maintain the charity’s development whether you are able to give a few hours a week or more:
Volunteer help needed for:
  • Field work (field walking, excavation, geophysics etc.
  • Post excavation (processing and recording finds and archiving)
  • Computer and digital work
  • Fund raising
  • Publicity
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