Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire: Pits, Posts and Cereals: Archaeological Investigations 2006-2009 PDF
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CLIFTON QUARRY, WORCESTERSHIRE CLIFTON QUARRY, WORCESTERSHIRE Pits, posts and cereals: archaeological investigations 2006–2009 Andrew Mann and Robin Jackson With contributions by Steven J. Allen, Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Anthony Brown, Alan Clapham, Gordon Cook, Nick Daffern, Steven R. Davis, Emily Edwards, Richard P. Evershed, Laura Griffin, Katie Head, Derek Hurst, Robert A. Ixer, Peter Marshall, John Meadows, Elizabeth Pearson, Fiona Roe, Ruth Shaffrey, Lucija Šoberl, Ian Tyers and Shirley Wynne Illustrated by Laura Templeton, Sarah Phear and Steven Rigby Published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by OXBOW BOOKS The Old Music Hall, 106–108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE and in the United States by OXBOW BOOKS 1950 Lawrence Road, Havertown, PA 19083 © Oxbow Books and the individual authors 2018 Hardback Edition: ISBN 978-1-78925-011-4 Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-78925-012-1 (epub) Kindle Edition: ISBN 978-1-78925-013-8 (mobi) A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2018943148 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher in writing. For a complete list of Oxbow titles, please contact: UNITED KINGDOM Oxbow Books Telephone (01865) 241249 Email: [email protected] www.oxbowbooks.com UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Oxbow Books Telephone (800) 791-9354, Fax (610) 853-9146 Email: [email protected] www.casemateacademic.com/oxbow Oxbow Books is part of the Casemate Group Front cover image: Iron Age Clifton by Steve Rigby Back cover image: top: Neolithic axe assemblage from a Grooved Ware pit; upper middle: early medieval timber-lined structure; lower middle: Grooved Ware; bottom: Aerial view of burnt mound and associated activity with palaeochannel running down right hand side of excavation area Contents List of figures List of tables Contributors Project summary Résumé Zusammenfassung Acknowledgements Part 1: Introduction Background Landscape and archaeological context Aims Part 2: Methods Documentary search Fieldwork methodology Structural analysis Scientific dating methodology (Peter Marshall, John Meadows, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Gordon Cook and Ian Tyers) Artefact methodology (Emily Edwards, Lucija Šoberl, Richard P. Evershed, Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Robin Jackson, Laura Griffin and Ian Tyers) Environmental methodology (Katie Head, Nick Daffern, Elizabeth Pearson, Alan Clapham, Steven J. Allen, Steven R. Davis, Shirley Wynne and Anthony Brown) Part 3: Excavation Results Geological deposits Palaeochannel deposits Late Neolithic Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Middle Bronze Age Early to Middle Iron Age Roman Early medieval Natural features Undated features Part 4: Artefact Analysis Middle Neolithic Pottery (Laura Griffin) Late Neolithic and Beaker pottery (Emily Edwards) Late Neolithic pottery absorbed residue analysis: (Lucija Šoberl and Richard P. Evershed) Neolithic and Early Bronze Age: fired clay (Emily Edwards) Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flint from the Area 10 watching brief (Hugo Anderson- Whymark) Flint from the Area 10 excavation (Robin Jackson) Neolithic and Early Bronze Age worked and burnt stone (Fiona Roe) The Bronze Age and later ceramic assemblages (Laura Griffin) Metalwork (Laura Griffin) Fire cracked stone (Laura Griffin) Iron Age stone objects (Ruth Shaffrey) Slag and metalworking residues (Derek Hurst) Early medieval wooden waterlogged artefacts from timber-lined structure [2121] (Ian Tyers) Part 5: Environmental Analysis Pollen (Katie Head and Nick Daffern) Plant macrofossils from the palaeochannel (Elizabeth Pearson) Entomological results from the palaeochannel (Steven R. Davis, Shirley Wynne, Anthony Brown) Plant macrofossils from non-palaeochannel deposits (Alan Clapham) Charcoal (Alan Clapham) Waterlogged wood (Alan Clapham)
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