Excavations at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, 1957

J. S. Wacher

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Excavations at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, 1957

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J. S. Wacher

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In 1946 excavations were undertaken at Breedon-on-the-Hill by Dr. K. M. Kenyon, F.S.A., in advance of quarrying operations. Since then further areas of the hill-fort have been destroyed, the rate of quarrying increasing yearly. So in 1957 excavations were again planned by the Ancient Monuments Branch of the Ministry of Works, and lasted nearly three weeks. Another section was cut through the east defences, about 100 feet north of Dr. Kenyon's Cut A, this time to include the ditch, which up till then had not been examined. No time could be allowed for any excavation within the fort.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , September 1964 , pp. 122 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500018059 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1964

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^{page 122 note 1} Trans. Leic. Arch. Soc. xxvi, 17–82. Hereafter called Breedon.

^{page 122 note 2} Ibid. 17.

^{page 125 note 1} See p. 137.

^{page 126 note 1} Breedon, 20.

^{page 126 note 2} Prehistoric Society's Conference: ‘Hill Forts’. London. 19th April 1959.

^{page 126 note 3} Breedon, 21.

^{page 126 note 4} Mr. Thomas states that the work on that occasion was confined to cleaning the section cut through the rampart by quarrying operations, and that the surface of the underlying rock was not examined.

^{page 127 note 1} Breedon, pl. xiii.

^{page 127 note 2} See Appendix, p. 141.

^{page 127 note 3} Breedon, 67.

^{page 127 note 4} Ed. S. S. Frere. Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain, pp. 8, 13.

^{page 127 note 5} Breedon, 68.

^{page 128 note 1} See Appendix, p. 141.

^{page 128 note 2} Suggested by the coin evidence. Ed. S. S. Frere. Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain, p. 107.

^{page 128 note 3} Information from Mr. S. E. Thomas.

^{page 129 note 1} Breedon, 22.

^{page 136 note 1} Biek, L., Archaeology and the Microscope, 1963, pp. 223 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 137 note 1} e.g. Berks. Arch. Journ. LX (1962), p. 21.

^{page 137 note 2} Mackay, R. R., Excavations at Winklebury Camp, 1959 (forthcoming).Google Scholar

^{page 138 note 1} Comment added by Mr. L. Biek; e.g. E. Greenfield, Excavations at Trevisker, St. Eval, Cornwall (forthcoming).

^{page 140 note 1} Ages of animals at death are in accordance with Ian Silver, ‘The Ageing of Domestic Animals’ D. R. Brothwell and E. S. Higgs, Science and Archaeology (1963).

^{page 142 note 1} Jewell, P. A. (ed.), The Experimental Earthwork on Overton Down (1960), p. 25.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 2} Advanc. Sci. xv (1958), 165.

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