Part of the Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project

Fieldwork in 1996 and 1997

This work is now published as: Lock, G., Gosden, C. and Daly, P. 2005. Segsbury Camp. Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway. Oxford: University of Oxford School of Archaeology Monograph 61 and is available from Oxbow Books.

The report describes the periodic occupation of the hillfort between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC and suggests that it is a communal centre for various activities including sheep management and exchange.

Excavations at Segsbury Camp

The excavations had two artists in residence and their work, The Segsbury Art Project, is described in detail as well as its effects on the archaeologists.

To accompany the publication the following are available here:

1. Context descriptions - Detailed contexts of all contexts trench by trench (available here as PDF file)

2. Image archive can be accessed here, (login as segsbury, password public2) All of the slides taken during the excavations (photographers Sheila Raven and Richard Bailey), plus various other images including section drawings and the Segsbury Art Project.  Click on 'Search' to view all images or type in a keyword to view specific items.

    

   Keywords

    

   General View

   Peopleshots

    

   Pit

   Ringditch

   Gully

   Linearfeature

   Posthole

   Postpipe

   Postholetrench

   Stakehole

   Rampart

   Rampartditch

   Revetment/wall

   Prerampartsoil

   Ardmarks

    

   Humanremains

   Pottery

   Animalbone

    

   Trench n*

    

   * - where n is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,7A,7B or 7C

The following specialists reports in full are available here as PDF files (please select to download)

1. The later prehistoric pottery by Lisa Brown
2. Iron Age animal bone by Jacqui Mulville and Adrienne Powell
3. The human skeletal assemblage by Angela Boyle
4. Carbonised plant remains by David Ingham and Mark Robinson
5. Molluscan analysis by David Ingham and Mark Robinson
6. The flint by Jodie Humphrey
7. The daub and fired clay and briquetage by Cynthia Poole
8. The worked stone by Fiona Roe
9. The slag-like material by Chris Salter