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Excavations at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire (1938–39)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

John Brailsford  and
J. Wilfrid Jackson
John Brailsford
Affiliation:
Dept. British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum
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The excavations of the Iron Age site at Little Woodbury were carried out by the Prehistoric Society in 1938–39 under the direction of Dr Gerhard Bersu. The first part of the report, published in Proc. Prehist. Soc. VI (1940), 30–111, was Dr Bersu's account of the structures revealed by excavation. This second part deals with the pottery, by far the most abundant material recovered, and discusses its significance for the history of the site and its relation to other Iron Age settlements in Wessex. The general conclusions are given first, and the detailed evidence on which they are based follows, with a catalogue of the pottery and two appendices.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 14 , 1948 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1948

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page 2 note 2 The evidence of the section cut by Mr Phillips through the ditch of Great Woodbury, or Woodbury proper, should be remembered at this point (Bersu, pp. 107–10), since our site and this closely neighbouring plateau-fort must have been intimately related. Great Woodbury seems to have been fortified about, perhaps at, the same time as Little Woodbury, but the work was completed, and apparently stood throughout the rest of the occupation of the smaller site. Great Woodbury continued to be inhabited in Romano-British times.

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page 19 note 9 Unpublished.

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