Laboratory: Harwell
BP: 2190 Std: 80
Delta 13C value -27.2 Delta 13C standard deviation None given
Sample Material: charcoal Sample Material Comment: corylus avellana, ca. 5 years growth
Feature Type: fortified settlement Feature: from brown silt with charcoal, beneath the tail of the second rampart; this is a crucial horizon in the site sequence, interpreted as vegetational clearance being be tween two phases of settlement.
Culture: Iron Age Phase: n/a
Site: Moel y Gaer Country Subdivision: Flintshire Country: United Kingdom
Approved: true Right: public
Literature:
G. Guilbert, Planned hillfort interiors, Proc Prehisto Soc 41,203 -221.
G. Guilbert, Moel y Gaer, 1973: an area excavation on the defences, Antiquity, 49, 109 - 17.
Comment: G Guilbert: later than expected, but nearer the end of the, stratigraphic sequence; this provides an acceptable terminus, ante quern for the construction of the second rampart.
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