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~~iro~ AVON ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 4 1985 .-:-,~••'"'-•••-•<·"·""'C~.,~~•C,~~~•~ .W~ . ~ BRISTOL AND AVON ARCHAEOLOGY 4 1985 - CONTENTS Bronze Age Artefacts in Avon 2 L V Grinse/1 The Keynsham Roman Villa and its Hexagonal Triclinia · 6 James Russell Apples in the Landscape: The Puxton Dolmoors 13 Keith Gardner Excavations at St Augustine the Less, Bristol, 1983-84 21 Eric J Boore Medieval Fishponds in Avon 34 E Dennison & R lies ' Ubley Manor House 1974 52 Michael Poneford ~ Avon Archaeology 1984 56 t R Iles & H White Drawing Small Finds 66 George A T Woo/ls Reviews © Authors and Bristol and Avon Archaeological Research Group COMMITTEE 1985-86 Chairman R G J Williams Vice-Chairman N Thomas Secretary J Bryant Treasurer J R Russell Membership Secretary J Harrison Associates Secretary G Dawson Parish Survey Co-ordinator M Campbell Editor R Iles Fieldwork Advisor M Ponsford Publicity Officer F Moor A Buchan, I Becky, J Hunt, A Wilson, D Dawson, M Aston, A J Parker For details aboui BAARG membership write to: Membership Secretary, BAARG, Bristol City Museum, Queens Road, Bristol BSS IRL. Editorial communications should be sent to: R Iles, 1 St Oswa~•s Court, Redland, Bristol BS6 7HX. Phototypesetting and printing by 'Typing Facilities, Midi.and Road, Bristol BS2 OLH. ISSN 0263-1091 llll11 2 BRONZE AGE ARTIFACTS IN AVON L V Grinsell The Bronze Age metalwork of southern England has been the The lists of material of Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age subject of several recent studies (e.g. Rowlands 1976;1 Colquhoun form the basis for the text and maps comprising chapter 3 1978 for pre-1974Somerset; Burgess 1980;Pearce 1983and 1984), (Bronze Age) of Archaeology in Avon (1986). Objects from· which have their own classifications and inevitably reveal barrows and other grave-groups are omitted. inconsistencies in matters of detail in their treatment· of the material from traditional north Somerset. No inventory of the ABBREVIATIONS material from Bristol and south Gloucestershire has yet been The following abbreviations used in the Other Details column published, except for that held in the City of Bristol Museum refer to items in the Bibliography: up to 1967 (Grinsell 1968). B & G Burgess and. Gerloff 1981 · · The following list provides a concordance between Rowlands . C Colquhoun 1979 1976, Colquhoun 1978, and Pearce 1983 for the material from P Pearce 1983 traditional north Somerset and Bristol south of the Avon, and R Rowlands 1976 supplies a comprehensive.listof finds from south Gloucestershire I and Bristol north of the Avon, thereby covering the whole of The barbed-and-tanged flint arrowheads are listed in volumes the present county of Avon. In the 'Other Details' column the II and III of the PhD thesis on Flint Miss(le Points of the British numbers following C, P and R provide a key to the scale drawings Isles (1977), by H. Stephen Green, a copy 9f which is in the in the publications by Colquhoun, Pearce, and Rowlands. Bronze library of the University of Wales, Cardiff. Age stone implements of shaft-hole typi; are also included. EARLY BRONZE AGE ARTIFACTS SUBJECT PHASE OR N.G.R. MUSEUM OR OTHER_DETAILS TYPE COLLECTION Hoards Ashton Court Arreton 550715 Private 2 tanged spearheads, 2 ogival daggers, and blade of flanged axe. Westbury-on.:Jrym Arreton 557774 BCM Cat 50 a-d 3 flanged axes. (2 decorated) and chisel or tracer. Flat axes Banner Down Irish 7969· Kingswood School, Bath P 587 Bristol Bridge Irish 591729 BCM Cat 49a - P 592 Bristol/Totterdown 603714 BCM Cat 49b P593 Clapton-in-Gordano. (Cock- 470733 Private 1979 Inf., BCM heap wood) Lansdown 7268 BM P 691 Uphill Burgess gp AB 315587 .Woodspring C 3; P 778-9 (both same implement?) Worlebury Hill 328626 Woodspring (1981) (Weston Woods) Flanged axes Bath Bridg·e Acton Pk 755655 BM C 13; P 570; R 273 GRINSELL: BRONZE AGE FINDS 3 Stone axe-hammers and 'battle-axes' · Bathampton ? 7766 BM (lost) Roe 1966, 171. Batheaston (Charmy Down) - Battle-axe (fragment) 755703 Blitzed 1941? Roe 1966, 172. Cromhall Axe-hammer 6990 BCM Cat 45a Group XII (Corndon). Keynsham Axe-hammer 674677 BCM Cat 45b Group XII (Corndon). Winscombe (Max Mills) A.Xe-hammer 401578 Unknown Knight 1951, 72. Yatton (Stowey Rhyne) Battle-axe 427665 Woodspring Group XV (Southern Lake District). Roe 1979,24 Domestic and other sites Ben Bridge Settlement? 554589 BCM Gibson 1982, 110 Chew Park Settlement? 569593 BCM Gibson 1982, 132 Kenn Moor Oak Stake 439693 Neolithic or Early Bronze . Age? MIDDLE BRONZE AGE ARTIFACTS SUBJECT PHASE OR N.G.R. MUSEUM OR OfHER DETAILS TYPE COLLECTION / Hoards Bath (near) 7565 area 1 private 2 palstaves, P 567 a and b; R 1 unknown 109. Smith 1959, 186 (no. 29) Batheaston (Monkswood) Taunton 757710 Bath Pump Room 26 objc;:ctsincluding quoit- headed pins, bracelets, tores, two-edged knives, sickles, and part of spearhead with loops in socket. P ·576 a-y; R ,115.· Smith 1959 . Compton Martin Taunton 553575 Univ. Bristol Spelaeolr · About a dozen palstaves, one (Park Mead) Soc (Blitzed 1940) without loop. C 40; P 64l •. ' a & b. Westbury-on-Trym Acton Pk? 5777 (area) 1 BCM Cat 57c; 1 2 palstaves found 1885. R 110 Staatliche Mus. filr Vorgeschichte, Berlin ,. Pa/staves Banwell Hill 359 (area) BCMC at 58a C 29; P 565· R 863. Bath (near) 7565 (area) Bath Pump Room c 42 (or 41?). Bath Acton Park 7565 (area) Bath Pump Room C 20 (text); C 19 (illustration); P 576.. Bath (near) Acton Park 7565 (area) BCM (ex Fawcett Colin) P 572; R 866. Bristol Bridge Irish ?90729 BCM Cat 57b . ·Irish type: Burgess B or C P -. 596; R 275 as flanged axe; R 870 as palsJave. Bristol/Totterdown 603714 BCMC at 58c Looped; shield with medial rib. P 595; R 899 Bristol/Bath St 590729 Ashmolean _P, 597; R 8~4. Radstock Tuunton 6754 (area) Tuunton Formerly i~ Weston-s-Mare mus. C 30 (but illus. 29); P 696; R 888. Solsbury Hill, Batheaston Acton Park 768679 BCM at 57a Shield decoration. C 17; P 589; R890. 1\verton near ·Bath 725648 Alnwick 205 P 571; R'898 Worlebury Hill Acton Park 335632 Woodspring Crack below stopridge. C 23 (text); C 22 (Illus.) P 776e. !mi 4 BRISTOL AND AVON ARCHAEOLOGY 4 I ....I I 0 0 ♦ I -I ❖ Fig J 5c.,n ..... f" Socketed axe, early type Wrington/Lulsgate Tuunton 497658 BCM Cat 65c Square mouth. C 59. P 791; R 1088. Spearheads (loops in socket) Bristol 590729? -_BCMCat 60 P 600; R 1358. Tormarton 767767 BCM R 160. Socketed spearheads (loops at base of blade) Bristol/Prince St. Tuunton 586726 BCM Cat 61b P 601; R 1576 Bristol area Tuunton 5973 (area) BCM Cat 61c P 602; R 1577. ,Loxton Hill Tuunton 3756 (area) Woodspring C 94; P 677; R 1580 South Stoke/Midford Viaduct Acton Park/Taunton 762607 Ulster Pointille decorated blade. C 95; P 735; R 1581: Fig 1 Stqke Gifford Tuunt9n 623803 BCM F 6347 Rapier Avonmouth Docks Tuunton 511786 BCM Cat 62 1\vo rivet-holes. Irish (Keelogue) type."B & G 124; P 599; R 1702. Tanged chisel Camerton/Seven Acre Field Tuunton 691565 Tuunton C 128; P 612; R 1121. Ornaments Winscombe/Sandford Hill , Tuunton 424590 BCM Cat 65a Bar-twisted. C 137; P 785; R 2016. Worlebury Hill Taunton 314625 Unknown Ribbon-twisted. P 776a. LATE BRONZE AGE ARTIFACTS Hoards Bath Ewart Park · 7565 (area) Bath (Pump Room) 4 Socketed axes of Irishtype. C 68-71; P 581-4. Kings Weston Hill (Bristol) Ewart Pk 553780 BCM (1980) 1 socketed axe (Sompting type). 19 axe-fragments (some also Sompting type), casting jets and various fragments. GRINSELL: BRONZE AGE FINDS 5 SUBJECT PHASE OR N.G.R. MUSEUM OR ITTHER DETAILS TYPE COLLECTION Late Pa/staves Peasedown St John Penard 703574 Tuunton C 39; P 703; R 887. Radstock Penard 6954 area Unknown, ex Herts C 51 (text), 50 (illus); P 697. County Mus. Socketed axes Bath (near) Wilburton 7565 area Salisbury South-eastern type. C 63; P 579. Bristol/Hotwells Ewart Park 567726 BCM Cat 68a Design of 3 pendulums (Sompting type)P 603. Bristol/Prince St. Ewart Park? 587726 BCM Cat 68b P 605. Camerton ? 6957 area BM Fragment only. Claverton Down, ·Bath Ewart Park 7763 area Tuunton, ex Alnwick 227 Breton type. C 84; P .580. Loxton Ewart Park 368570 Tuunton 'South Welsh' (Stogursey type). C 75; P 678. Saltford Wilburton 685675 BCM Cat 68c South-eastern type. C 64; P 723.· Sea Mills/Stoke Bishop 554768 BCM Cat 68e Yorkshire type. P 604 Sodbury Ewart Park 724830 Unknown Davies 1925 J Warmley/Oldland. Ewart Park 663715 BCM Cat 68d Three vertical ribs. Worle Hill Ewart Park 348633 Ashmolean (cast in South-eastern type.. C 81; Woodspring) P 776g. Wraxall flill ? 499722 Unknown Fragment only. Dobson 1931, 259 Spearheads (peg-holes in socket) Tickenham/Cadbury hf Ewart Park 454725 Tuunton 3 bands of chevron decoration around base. P 757. Worlebury Hill Ewart Park? 328623 Woodspring Socket missing but blade of this type. P 776C: Socketed adze Barrow Gurney . Ewart Park ? 519665 BCM Cat 67 C 138; ,P 566, Socketed gouge Yatton Ewart Park? - 430660 Taunton C 133; P 792 Socketed knife Newton St Loe ? 707649 (Formerly) Bath Tech. P 687. '. Awl with stops (tanged leather-working knife?) . Tickenham/Court Hill Ewart Park? 437722 BCM In round barrow but not with an interment. P 758. Rapier Bath/Walcot (garden of 4 Taunton/Penard 751659 Bath Pump Room B and G group IV, 661; hilt Pera Place) only. C 115; P 577. Swards Bath/Twerton (nr gasometer) Penard 737650 area Alnwick Cas.