Multi-period occupation at football field, Worth Matravers, Dorset : excavations 2006-2011 /
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| Author / Creator: | Ladle, Lilian, author. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | xx, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAR British series, 643 BAR British series ; 643. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11739192 |
| Summary: | This book presents the detailed results of excavations at a small multi-period site in south-east Dorset. The site provided evidence for an Early Neolithic enclosure, a timber-framed, Late Bronze Age roundhouse, Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age middening activities, Iron Age and Roman settlement and a post-Roman inhumation cemetery. The midden and its associated features and finds are of particular significance, with evidence for deposition and accumulation over several centuries. Other important features include: a Late Iron Age stone-lined pit containing over 100 near-complete pots and a substantial quantity of animal bone, suggesting a large-scale communal gathering and feasting activity; a Roman barn, used as a shale workshop and as a burial place for infants; a 6th- to 8th-century AD cemetery of single, double and triple graves, illuminating the nature of change in burial practices in Dorset at this time; and significant pottery and animal bone assemblages, particularly from the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age and Late Iron Age. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-331). |
| ISBN: | 1407316745 9781407316741 |