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Summary

Excavations at Castle Dore produced many sherds of Iron Age pottery the majority of which is dated to C4 to C3 BC, with cordoned ware of C1 BC to C1 AD from later contexts.

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 26690.05
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SX15SW 1.2

Monument Type(s):

• FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

Excavations at Castle Dore produced many sherds of Iron Age pottery (b1). Much of this is from unstratified contexts due to extensive plough damage on the site. The earliest sherds, sealed beneath the inner rampart are dated by Quinnell and Harris to the C5 or C4 BC. The majority of pottery from the interior of the fort comprises fully developed south-west decorated Iron Age pottery, dated to C4 to C3 BC. Cordoned ware is also represented in later contexts at Castle Dore which Quinnell and Harris suggest has a date range of 80-50 BC to AD 100 (b12).

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Site history:
2: 1969. OS
3: 1979. SHEPPARD, PA / DOE
4: 1987. LUXULYAN VALLEY PROJECT
5: 1988. PRESTON-JONES, A / HBMC
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<1> Radford, CAR, 1951, Report on the Excavations at Castle Dore, (NS) VOL 1, APPENDIX (Article in Journal). SCO5144.

<2> Quinnell, H & Harris, DG, 1985, Castle Dore: The Chronology Reconsidered, VOL 24, 123-131 (Article in Journal). SCO4207.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds

• FCO4427 - SHERD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Events: none recorded

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