Crossing Thresholds: From Monumental to Non-monumental

Abstract

The Period 3 stone northwestern gateway gradually collapsed, and along with unsuccessful attempts to stabilise the walls a timber gate was constructed on the rubble, and in the final phase of occupation there appears to have been no gate in this location. Side entrances have been identified on the east and west of the promontory, and these never had structural gates. Likewise, only the initial design of the northwestern outwork entrance had a timber gate, and even that was simple and was not maintained. All the other outwork access points never had a gate, even though some were monumental in terms of the scale of the ramparts and ditches at these points of the circuit.