Thirty-two curvilinear and linear bedding trenches up to 0.5 m in breadth, with vertical or near vertical sides and flat or near flat bases were recorded. Postholes were recorded within many of the bedding trenches. These bedding trenches held various forms of enclosing palisade.

The sequence P1, P4 & P2, is probably paired with P21 and would have served to narrow the entrance into the enclosure. A similar pattern can be seen with regard to P5, P18, P3 & P19; again the implication is that the entrance to the enclosure was narrowed. Given that these two sets of palisades appear to serve the same function it is likely that they

Palisade slot showing postholes

are contemporary and therefore by implication both D3 and D2 were visible, but largely backfilled by the time the entrance was narrowed. The backfill of D2 and D3 largely took place prior to the construction of the palisades, and so the settlement may have been unenclosed, or enclosed by D1 at this time.

A plethora of palisades follow the purposeful abandonment and infill of D3.The sequence of the construction, abandonment or deliberate destruction (ie P7) of these palisades could not be elucidated during field work, except for P10, which appeared to post-date P7/P14 and P8/P11