Site of Iron Age Settlement NW of Crimscote Flds Fm

Description of this historic site

The possible site of an Iron Age settlement. The site is suggested by a scatter of pottery sherds. It is located 800m south west of Crimscote.

Notes about this historic site

1 1984: Field survey. 624 sherds of possible Early/Middle Iron Age pottery were recovered. These were predominantly in shell gritted fabrics and included coarse ware jars with shoulders decorated by finger tipping. Fourteen fragments of fired clay including fragments of a loomweight were found.
2 Plan.
3 Also recovered from the survey were daub fragments. The sherds recovered ref 1 are similar to pottery from other Iron Age sites in the North Cotswolds.

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