A Bronze Age Settlement at Chalton, Hants (Site 78)
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Antiquaries Journal
- Vol. 50 (1) , 1-13
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500063411
Abstract
Summary Road works in 1968 led to the excavation of an unenclosed Bronze Age farm at SU 717181. Two circular huts, 23 ft. and 14 ft. in diameter, were uncovered together with two ‘working platforms’ and three pits. Stratified finds included pottery, a loom weight, a whetstone, an unlooped low-flanged palstave, a bronze knife, an awl, and a conical fitting, all pointing to a date within the Middle Bronze Age. Tentative estimates might suggest a single family unit of approximately four people, farming about 16 acres of arable. The farm appears to have been in use for only a short time.Keywords
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