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A Bronze Age Refuse Pit at Swanwick, Hants.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Charles F. Fox
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The Bursledon Brick Company's works are situated on rising ground north-east of the Southern Railway's branch line from Southampton to Fareham, and some 600 yards east of the tidal river Hamble, as shown on the plan (fig. 1). The geological formation is London clay; the beds have been exposed here to a depth of 40 ft, the section showing 1½ ft. of humus on an upper stratum of brownish-red clay resting on a bed of grey clay. The country immediately around supports oak, hazel, and alder.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1928 , pp. 331 - 336
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1928

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page 332 note 1 Subsequent to the preparation of this report I received from the foreman of the brickworks a second ‘grit-stone’, small (4·5 in. by 2·75 in.), roughly trimmed to a rectangular shape, with hollows for the hand grip on either side, and ground on the under face. The ground surface was concave, and could not have been used with the quern. The stone was found close to the pit, at the junction of clay and humus; i. e. within the zone subject to disturbance by cultivation.

page 334 note 1 Archaeologia, lxxvi, p. 5.

page 334 note 2 loc. cit., p. 18.

page 334 note 3 Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, pp. 62 et seq., and map 11.