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| Name: | Bronze Age occupation - Cock hill |
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| HER Ref: | MWS3005 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Designations - none recorded
Summary
Three saucer-shaped depressions lying outside, and possibly associated with the enclosure of the late Bronze Age farm (see 2027). They contained late Bronze age and early Iron Age (see 2060) potsherds, pot-boilers and worked flint flakes, but no post holes were present in or round the rims. {1} No traces were seen in 1971 in an area of arable land temporarily under pasture.{2}ü Activity Reference - 1 = WS122
Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Occupation debris, Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SETTLEMENT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Sources
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Ratcliffe-Densham HBA & MM. 1961. Sussex Arch Colls. 99:92. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: OS. 1971. TQ00NE11. |
Associated Events
- Fully excav, Ratcliffe-Densham HBA & MM, c.1952
Associated Monuments
- MWS3006 - Related to: Iron Age pottery - Cock hill (Find Spot)
- MWS6396 - Related to: Itford Hill style settlement on Cock Hill (Monument)
Associated Finds
- BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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