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The Excavation of Maiden Castle, Dorset. First Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

R. E. M. Wheeler
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With the consent of the Duchy of Cornwall (the owners of the site) and H.M. Office of Works (its guardians), the Society of Antiquaries and the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society have undertaken a limited exploration of Maiden Castle, Dorset, over a period of three years. The first season's work was carried out in 1934 under the direction of Mrs. T. V. Wheeler and Lt.-Col. C. D. Drew, with the writer, and is here summarized.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1935 , pp. 265 - 275
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1935

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page 266 note 1 The excavators are deeply indebted to Dr. J. Wilfrid Jackson for reporting upon the animal bones. His reports will later be published in detail.

page 266 note 2 Archaeological Journal, lxxxviii (1931), 75Google Scholar.

page 267 note 1 Proc. Devon Arch. Expl. Soc. (1931), p. 94; 1932, p. 178.

page 267 note 2 Archaeological Journal, xci (1934), 35, 50Google Scholar.

page 267 note 3 Curwen, E. Cecil in Antiq. Journ. xiii (1933), 162CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Hawkes, C. F. C. in Antiquity, v (1931), 71Google Scholar.

page 268 note 1 Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlvi (1933), 198 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 269 note 1 This street was metalled with rammed flints and pebbles during the Belgic phase of occupation (first century A.D.), but seems previously to have had no special surfacing.

page 270 note 1 For example, a lined post-hole of Belgic period occurred in the top filling of pit B 42.

page 272 note 1 Cf. Stähelin, F., Die Schweiz in römischer Zeit (Basel, 1931), p. 510Google Scholar, and references there given both to the three-horned bull and to the three-headed god.

page 272 note 2 Thus, the recent examination of the Roman house at Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds has proved a partial reconstruction not earlier than the end of the fourth century.

page 272 note 3 And possibly at Chanctonbury in Sussex, although the date of the Chanctonbury temple has not been ascertained. See Sussex Arch. Collections, liii (1910), 131 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 273 note 1 Antiquity, v (1931), 60Google Scholar ff. Cf. Radford, C. A. R., Proc. 1st Intern. Cong. Preh. & Protohist. Sciences, 1932, p. 147Google Scholar.

page 273 note 2 Cf. Leeds, E. T. in Antiq. Journ., xv (1935), 41Google Scholar.

page 273 note 3 As shown by Mr. R. F. Jessup and Mr. N. Cook at Bigberry, and elsewhere.

page 274 note 1 Further west, at Hembury Fort in Devon, where Iron Age pottery was relatively scarce, the proportion of ‘Glastonbury’ pieces was higher—either, it may be suggested, by the chance of discovery, or perhaps because Hembury lay along the line of ‘Glastonbury’ immigration. But there is insufficient evidence at present, I understand, to regard Hembury as a ‘Glastonbury’ hill-fort.

page 275 note 1 I have to thank Mr. St. George Gray for generous facilities for the examination of the Somerset material.