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Multi-period Occupation at Football Field, Worth Matravers, Dorset: Excavations 2006–2011
Lilian Ladle
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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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Summary
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Résumé
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Zusammenfassung
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1. Environment and Project Background
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2. The Neolithic, Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age Periods
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3. The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Transition
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4. The Middle and Late Iron Age
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5. The Romano-British Period
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6. The Post-Roman Burials
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7. Flaked Stone, Worked Stone and Kimmeridge Shale
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8. The Early Prehistoric Pottery
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9. The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Pottery
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10. The Middle Iron Age, Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery
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11. Finds of Metal, Slag, Glass, Fired Clay and Worked Bone
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12. Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Modelling of the Post-Roman Cemetery
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13. The Human Remains
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14. The Faunal Remains
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15. The Environmental Remains
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16. Interpretation and Discussion
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Bibliography
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Published: 2018
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407316741 (paperback)
- 9781407323305 (ebook)
BAR Number: B643
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Roman
- Lithics / Stone Tools
- British Isles
- Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Multiperiod
- Metal Objects
- Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Dress / Jewellery / Personal Ornament