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An Early Iron Age Site at Holwell, Hertfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. S. Applebaum
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The pottery recorded in this paper was found at Flints sandpit on Lordship Farm early in 1933 by Mrs. C. Wager, till recently of Holwell, to whom thanks are due for permission to publish. The sand-pit is half a mile south of Holwell, a village 2¼ miles north-west of Hitchin. It is situated on a slope facing westwards, at 200 ft. above sea-level, and the soil is a patch of sand on boulder-clay (plan, fig. 1).

In the course of sand-digging, some pits were cut into and destroyed on the north side of the sand-pit. The pits were about 5 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. deep. Other pits may lie to the north. Mr. W. H. Lane, of Letchworth, has kindly sent the following note: ‘In one of the pits there were two hearths. The first hearth was at a depth of about 4 ft. 6 in. Above this was silted material sloping at a rather acute angle from east to west. The pit had then been levelled by dumping surface-soil, and the second hearth made some 2 ft. above the first.’

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1934 , pp. 383 - 388
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1934

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page 383 note 1 6 in. O.S. Herts., Sheet 6, SE.

page 383 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, vii, 119, fig. 35.

page 383 note 3 M. E. Cunnington, All Cannings Cross, p. 179, pl. 41, no. 4.

page 383 note 4 Munro, Lake Dwellings of Europe, p. 46, fig. 10, no. 9.

page 384 note 1 Vogt, Spätbronzezeitliche Keramik der Schweiz, p. 67, pi. ix, 14.

page 385 note 1 Déchelette, Manuel, iii, 160, fig. 256, nos. 11–17.

page 385 note 2 Archaeologia, lxxvii, 190, fig. 42.

page 385 note 3 Antiq. Journ. iv, 352, figs. 5, 6, and 10.

page 385 note 4 Cunnington, op. cit., p. 155, pl. 30, nos. 1–2.

page 386 note 1 Archaeologia, lxxvii, 190, fig. 53.

page 386 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, vi, 373, pl. xxxvii, h.

page 386 note 3 Fox, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, p. 96, pl. xvi, 6.

page 386 note 4 Archaeologia, lxxvii, 185, figs. 16–18.

page 386 note 5 Hengistbury Head Report, pl. xviii, 32.

page 387 note 1 Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, vi, 373, pl. xxxvi, c, and pl. xxxvii, h and i.

page 387 note 2 Archaeologia, lxxvii, 196, fig. 57, no. 1.

page 387 note 3 M. E. Cunnington, All Cannings Cross, p. 144, pl. 28, nos. 3–4, pl. 33, nos. 1–6, 8.

page 387 note 4 Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlvi, 2.

page 387 note 5 Ibid., xlii, 476, pl. vi, 5.

page 387 note 6 Ibid., xliii, 51, note 1.

page 387 note 7 Ibid., xl, 33, pl. viii, 3.

page 387 note 8 Ibid., xliii, 73, pl. vi, 6.

page 387 note 9 Devizes Museum Catalogue, ii, 94, no. 814.

page 387 note 10 Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlvi, 211, pl. xiv, 1–2.

page 387 note 11 Devizes Museum Catalogue, ii, 96, no. 847.

page 388 note 1 For Scarborough forms on the Thames, compare Old England, Brentford, Antiquity, iii, 20 ff., fig. 4, no. 3; and Southchurch, Essex, Antiq. Journ. xi, 415, fig. 4, nos. 4–6.

page 388 note 2 Fox, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, p. 80.