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Summary

Circular pit excavated as part of a programme of archaeological works along the route of a gas pipeline. Cereal grain from the fill of the pit, which was amongst a scatter of earlier prehistoric features, returned a radiocarbon date of AD394-534 suggesting that the pit is late or post Roman. The purpose of the pit is unclear but it may suggest that some of the other undated features on the site are also late or post Roman rather than earlier prehistoric.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PIT (IV to VI - 394 AD to 534 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, 56 (Report - non-specific). SDV347992.

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. 58 (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, FTC18.12 (Report - non-specific). SDV347994.

Mudd, A. + Joyce, S., 2014, The Archaeology of the South-West Reinforcement Gas Pipeline, Devon. Investigations in 2005-2007, 132-3 (Monograph). SDV359340.

Site 28. Pit at Moore Farm, Harberton. Amongst the scatter of earlier prehistoric features was a circular pit (18.12.015), 1.5 metres diameter and 0.38 metres deep. The fill contained carbonised remains including oats, barley and other indeterminate cereal grains and wood charcoal, mainly oak and hazel. A calibrated radiocarbon date of AD394-534 was returned on a sample of cereal grain which places the pit in the late Roman or immediate post-Roman period. The purpose of the pit is unclear but it may suggest that some of the undated features on the site are late or post-Roman rather than earlier Prehistoric in date.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV6202 - CEREAL GRAIN (IV to VI - 394 AD to 534 AD)

Associated Events

• EDV4375 - Fishacre to Lyneham Pipeline Assessment
• EDV4391 - Fishacre to Lyneham Fieldwalking Survey
• EDV5439 - Archaeological Investigations Along Gas Pipeline, South-West Reinforcement Project

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