Boden in the Bronze Age - Part 2

In 2008 MAG found a large roundhouse, 8 m in diameter into which were embedded sherds from the same vessel previously spotted in 2003, (We’re not quite sure how much of it yet) along with lots of other interesting finds dating to the middle Bronze Age.

Starting to reveal the Roundhouse hollow, 2008, MAG volunteers and students.

Other Trevisker Ware vessels, more of the large vessel laid out on the roundhouse floor. 

Other Trevisker Ware vessels, more of the large vessel laid out on the roundhouse floor. 

Other Trevisker Ware vessels, more of the large vessel laid out on the roundhouse floor. 

Trevisker Ware lug

Cylindrical Loom Weight

Wetstone


Trevisker Ware with swag decoration

Ceramic Spindle Wheel

A large vessel embedded into the floor of the roundhouse to use as a basin

A large vessel embedded into the floor of the roundhouse to use as a basin

Discovery of a bronze age dagger and a post hole

The bronze age dagger 

Full excavation of the round house showed it to be a circular enclosure cut into the hill slope, approximately 8 meters in diameter with a perimeter of post holes and a central hearth.

Radiocarbon dates suggested it dates to the Middle Bronze Age C1400bc

An artist’s impression of a similar roundhouse