Report on the Excavations at Grime's Graves, Weeting, Norfolk, March-May, 1914
Author | : Prehistoric Society of East Anglia |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : Prehistoric Society of East Anglia |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : Prehistoric Society (ENGLAND) |
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Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1915 |
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Author | : Prehistoric Society of East Anglia |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Bronze age |
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Author | : Ian H. Longworth |
Publisher | : British Museum Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Roger Mercer |
Publisher | : English Heritage Publishing |
Total Pages | : 845 |
Release | : 2014-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1848021607 |
A programme of excavation and survey directed by Roger Mercer between 1974 and 1986 demonstrated that Hambledon was the site of an exceptionally large and diverse complex of earlier Neolithic earthworks, including two causewayed enclosures, two long barrows and several outworks, some of them defensive. The abundant cultural material preserved in its ditches and pits provides information about numerous aspects of contemporary society, among them conflict, feasting, the treatment of the human corpse, exchange, stock management and cereal cultivation. The distinct depositional signatures of various parts of the complex reflect their diverse use. The scale and manner of individual episodes of construction hint at the levels of organisation and co-ordination obtaining in contemporary society. Use of the complex and the construction of its various elements were episodic and intermittent, spread over 300-400 hundred years, and did not entail lasting settlement. As well as stone axe heads exchanged from remote sources, more abundant grinding equipment and pottery from adjacent regions may point to the areas from which people came to the hill. If so, it had important links with territories to the west, north-west and south, in other words with land off the Wessex Chalk, at the edge of which the complex lies. Within the smaller compass of the immediate area of the hill, including Cranborne Chase, field walking survey suggests that the hill was the main focus of earlier Neolithic activity. A complementary relationship with the Chase is indicated by a fairly abrupt diminution of activity on the hill in the late fourth millennium, when the massive Dorset cursus and several smaller monuments were built in the Chase. Renewed activity on the hill in the late third millennium and early second millennium was a prelude to occupation on and around the hill in the second millennium in the mid to late second millennium, which was followed by the construction of a hillfort on the northern spur from the early first millennium. Late Iron Age and Romano-British activity may reflect the proximity of Hod Hill. A small pagan Saxon cemetery may relate to settlement in the Iwerne valley which it overlooks.
Author | : Anne Teather |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789251494 |
The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered over thirty years ago, promoting a more dynamic view of past extraction processes. Whether by quarrying, mining or surface retrieval, the geographic source locations of raw materials and their resultant archaeological sites have been approached from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. In recent years this has included the exploration of previously undiscovered sites, refined radiocarbon dating, comparative ethnographic analysis and novel analytical approaches to stone tool manufacture and provenancing. The aim of this volume in the Neolithic Studies Group Papers is to explore these new findings on extraction sites and their products. How did the acquisition of raw materials fit into other aspects of Neolithic life and social networks? How did these activities merge in creating material items that underpinned cosmology, status and identity? What are the geographic similarities, constraints and variables between the various raw materials, and how does the practise of stone extraction in the UK relate to wider extractive traditions in northwestern Europe? Eight papers address these questions and act as a useful overview of the current state of research on the topic.