This area is directly below area D. On the north-east side of this trench is a large pit cut into an orange clay platform. This pit is adjacent to the water pit in trench D and divided by the bulk which we intend to remove next season. The orange clay platform is more than 30cm deep and very dense clay. It slopes from the pit area gently to the south edge of the trench very much like a burial mound might. To the east of the trench a gully has been cut out of the orange clay to form a flue for a bowl furnace that has also been cut out of the clay. This flue has been capped with large granite slabs and sealed with white clay. The re-deposit of the bowl furnace was laid onto the edge of the platform and when excavated a turquoise tooth was discovered. It appears to be a pig tooth that has been so impregnated with copper it looks like a turquoise gemstone. To the west side of this furnace the orange clay slope has been cut out to provide clay to extend the slope of the mount to the west to make a working area. In this area a sump was dug in the 1950’s to provide a drain for a kitchen annex to the house directly above the site. This sump cut through the remade working platform into another lower floor that was under the orange clay mound. An oil drum was placed in this sump and a clay drain was linked to it from the house. On top of this oil drum when excavated was hard pieces of the lower green clay floor. Mixed in this clay re-deposit was some black friable anomalous ceramic pieces. These pieces of ceramic smelt of tar and it was assumed at the time of excavation that they were in some way contaminated by the oil drum. However, they turned out to be something very exiting which I will describe in full in the archive section of the site under the heading ‘Black Ceramic’.

To the south of this sump cut, the orange clay mound gently slopes down until it is cut into by a rubbish pit from the 18^th century mill house. The base of this extensive pit has not yet been full excavated as it becomes a pool when there is the slightest amount of rainfall.  To the south east of this trench however, in the corner directly below the bowl furnace and flue there is the remains of what we believe to be another Mesolithic house platform. It has the same dense green clay interior and the remains of the same yellow clay stony surround. Next season we will take the bulk out between this trench and trench K where the other part of this  platform can be clearly seen on its northern edge.

were so many different prints superimposed on one another. In areas the clay was missing to reveal sand underneath and under that in some areas a black peat could be seen.