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Summary

A shallow curvilinear gully, the remains of an eaves-drainage feature defining an Iron Age roundhouse, was revealed during excavations undertaken as part of a programme of archaeological works along the route of a gas pipeline. Soil samples from the gully contained crop processing waste. Radiocarbon dates of 347-95 cal. BC and 176-53 cal. BC were returned from barley grains from the sample.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Site of partly excavated Iron Age round house and Bronze Age pits, suggestive of Bronze Age activity and Iron Age farmstead to west of Crablake Farm

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• GULLY (Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD) + Sci.Date

Full description

Joyce, S. + Mudd, A. + Collard, M., 2010, South-West Reinforcement Project, Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare, Aylesbeare to Kenn, Fishacre to Choakford Gas Pipelines, Devon: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Issue 2: Volume I Text, 44, 207 (Report - non-specific). SDV347992.

Site ATK 14.09. A curvilinear ditch (14.09.021) was recorded in the eastern part of the site, potentially the remains of a ring ditch. A sample from the fill produced an interesting assemblage of crop processing waste.

Joyce, S. + Mudd, A. + Collard, M., 2010, South-West Reinforcement Project, Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare, Aylesbeare to Kenn, Fishacre to Choakford Gas Pipelines, Devon: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Issue 2: Volume II Illustrations, Fig. 42 (Report - non-specific). SDV347993.

Joyce, S. + Mudd, A. + Collard, M., 2010, South-West Reinforcement Project, Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare, Aylesbeare to Kenn, Fishacre to Choakford Gas Pipelines, Devon: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Issue 2: Volume III Site Gazetteer, ATK 14.09 (Report - non-specific). SDV347994.

Mudd, A. + Joyce, S., 2014, The Archaeology of the South-West Reinforcement Gas Pipeline, Devon. Investigations in 2005-2007, 84-85, 122 (Monograph). SDV359340.

Site 15. Crablake Farm, Exminster. A shallow curvilinear gully was revealed during excavations undertaken as part of a programme of archaeological works along the route of a gas pipeline. The gully is interpreted as an eaves-drainage feature defining a round house; the gully would have enclosed a circle about 12 metres diameter. Soil samples from the gully contained crop processing waste. Radiocarbon dates of 347-95 cal. BC and 176-53 cal. BC were returned from barley grains from the sample. The evidence suggests an Iron Age farmstead in the vicinity, although it does not appear to have been enclosed. It also probably accounts for the anomalous Iron Age radiocarbon date from one of the Bronze Age pits to the west.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV6117 - CEREAL GRAIN (Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Events

• EDV5439 - Archaeological Investigations Along Gas Pipeline, South-West Reinforcement Project

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