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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | View including a Roman ditch cut through the Ribbon. When the ditch was built in the Roman period it followed the path of the Ribbon. This may indicated that the Ribbon was waterlogged due to it being lower ground rather than it being visible in the Roman period.
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| Posted Comments: RichardTabor
(2008-07-07) | A really interesting feature. How much of the feature is filled by the fire-cracked stones? And are they re-depotied after burning or were they burnt in situ? In the landscape around South Cadbury Castle we have a number of closure deposits, usually in the upper fills but sometimes thoughout in ditches, gullys, pits, scoops and postoles from the Middle to Late Bronze Age.
Any sign of metal casting debris? The Severn Valley is sometimes thought to be associated with Bronze Age casting and this would appear to be an industrial scale of burnt stone production! | johnchristie
(2008-07-07) | In 1998, in the Wiltshire village of Winterbourne Stoke, I discovered a turf enbanked, causeway. That bridge-approach that was capped with a foot thick layer of fire fused flint. A report of the find was lodged with English Heritage at the time. An illustrated intrepretation of that prehistoric bridge and its approaches is to found in my recently published book 'Stonehenge a New Understanding'. | johnchristie
(2008-07-07) | In 1998, in the Wiltshire village of Winterbourne Stoke, I discovered a turf enbanked, causeway. That bridge-approach was capped with a foot thick layer of fire fused flint. It is my opinion that it predates 2000 B.C. A report of the discovery was lodged with English Heritage at the time. An illustrated intrepretation of that prehistoric bridge and its approaches is to be found in my recently published book 'Stonehenge a New Understanding'. |
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