OSMap: LR203, Explorer7.
Type: Settlement
Probable trackway: E (8) to ICTIS
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NGRef: SW403288 OSMap: LR203, Explorer7. Type: Settlement |
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Possible trackway: NE (6) to Chysauster Probable trackway: E (8) to ICTIS | |
| Phase | Date | Buildings | Artefacts |
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| I | About 500BC to 300 BC | Fogou: round chamber and (later) long passage. ?Timber and turf houses. | Stamp-decorated pottery, nearly all of local granitic clay. |
| II | About 300BC to 50BC | Timber and turf houses of House A1 type. | Roulette-decorated pottery, jars with tooled curvilinear decoration and early cordoned pots (South-western Decorated Ware). Granitic clay still in use, but some pots of gabbroic clay imported from the Lizard peninsula. Querns. Spindlewhorls of stone and pot. |
| III | About 50BC to AD100 | Stone and earlier timber houses in use. | Cordoned Ware jars and bowls. Undecorated pots of gabbroic clay. Spindlewhorls (some re-used potsherds). Querns, iron brooch and pruning hook. |
| IV | Second to fourth centuries AD | Courtyard houses built; also oval stone houses of House A type. ?Fogu opened at east end. | Romano-British pottery and fragments of Samian Ware. Roman glass beads. Spindlewhorls and rotary querns. |
| Sometime before AD400 the site became abandoned. | |||
| Mid-eighteenth century AD: cottage built on west side. | |||
