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Iron Age Pottery from Wisley, Surrey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

A. W. G. Lowther
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The purpose of this paper is to present an adequate record of the Iron Age pottery found in 1922–23 at a site on the left bank of the river Wey, at a point east of Wisley Church, of which only a small, and not fully representative selection has yet been published. The pieces hitherto recorded were selected from material presented to the British Museum, but a larger quantity has been kindly made available by Dr Eric Gardner, F.S.A., and is here published, together with pottery from the same site, now in Weybridge Museum. Account has also been taken of the sherds in the British Museum.

The pottery is stated to have been found in a series of pits, among which were some containing neolithic B rim sherds proving earlier occupation of the site, but no plans or sections or other adequate information about the site was published, though the report states that ‘four large kilns were uncovered and one small one, made expressly for firing the largest urn.’ It is also recorded that ‘a few loom-weights were found and wattle-and-daub was abundant.’

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 11 , 1945 , pp. 32 - 38
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1945

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References

page 32 note 1 Smith, R. A., ‘Pottery finds at Wisley,’ Ant. J., IV, 40–45Google Scholar.

page 32 note 2 Op. cit.

page 34 note 1 Paralleled by two vessels from the outer defences of Oldbury, each of which contained cremation burials. Both these, however, were wheel-turned and had pedestal and foot-ring bases, with zones of ornament separated by cordons. Arch. vol. 90, p. 164Google Scholar.

page 34 note 2 Single haematite surfaced vessels have come from three other Surrey sites, viz.: Carshalton, Ewell and Epsom.

page 35 note 1 See a forthcoming issue of Surrey Arch. Coll.

page 35 note 2 e.g. the group found at Farnham, Surrey. See Prehistory of Farnham, p. 211.

page 35 note 3 Surrey Arch. Coll., XXII.

page 35 note 4 The letter I, prefixed to numbers on illustrations, is the index letter of the site in the list of Surrey Iron Age sites prepared by the author.

page 35 note 5 Cf. a vessel from the Early Iron Age A sites at Shortheath Ridge, Farnham. Prehistory of Farnham, p. 188Google Scholar, fig. 80.

page 35 note 6 Ant. J., IV, p. 42Google Scholar.

page 35 note 7 P.S.A., XXXIII, 376, 385.

page 35 note 8 L'Anthropologie, XLIV, 1934, 515Google Scholar.

page 35 note 9 Winbolt, S. E., S.A.C., XL, p. 94Google Scholar.

page 37 note 1 Ant. J., IV, fig. 7, G.

page 37 note 2 For a recent discussion of Surrey-Sussex haematite ware, see Ant. J., XXII, pp. 129–38Google Scholar.

page 37 note 3 Part of a similarly decorated vessel was found (1939–40) at ‘Purberry Shot,’ Ewell. See S.A.C. (forthcoming).

page 37 note 4 Ant. J., IV, p. 44Google Scholar, fig. 9; cf. the Hascombe Camp pot (Guildford Mus.), which has a similar section.

page 38 note 1 Sussex Arch. Coll., LXXX, p. 219Google Scholar. ‘Caburn I ware.’

page 38 note 2 Maiden Castle Report, fig. 66; no. 115 in particular.

page 38 note 3 Ant. Journ., XXII, p. 123Google Scholar, et seq.

page 38 note 4 op. cit, fig. 3, no. 9.

page 38 note 5 Surrey Arch. Coll., XXII.

page 38 note 6 Unpublished.

page 38 note 7 S.A.C., forthcoming.