Lines in the Landscape: Cursus Monuments in the Upper Thames Valley : Excavations at the Drayton and Lechlade CursusesOxford University School of Archaeology, 2003 - 268 páginas The Upper Thames Valley is an important area for prehistoric monuments and has one of the highest concentrations of cursuses, distinctive linear or elongated earthworks, in Britain. In the 1980s the Oxford Archaeological Unit along with the Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society had the opportunity to extensively investigate one of these sites at Drayton. This site has produced many significant results for our present understanding of the date, construction and use of cursus monuments on the lowland river gravels of Britain. This volume reports on the excavations at Drayton, and includes an account of small-scale excavations undertaken at the Lechlade cursus by OAU and Lance and Faith Vatcher. It also provides a gazetteer of known cursus monuments in the Upper Thames Valley. |
Índice
Introduction to the Drayton Cursus Excavations by Alistair Barclay George Lambrick | 6 |
Excavations at Drayton South 192137 Drayton Highways Depot 1994 | 16 |
a summary of the Neolithic and Bronze | 31 |
The Excavations of the Drayton North Cursus Earlier Prehistoric Evidence | 42 |
Treethrow holes and tree clearance | 60 |
The cursus monument | 67 |
The west cursus ditch barrow | 91 |
The Excavations of the Drayton North Cursus Iron Age Roman | 104 |
Tile by Leigh Allen | 155 |
Palaeoenvironmental studies by Mark Robinson | 163 |
Dating Evidence | 180 |
The Excavations of the Lechlade Cursus by Alistair Barclay David Miles | 190 |
Iron Age pottery by Alistair Barclay | 205 |
Gazetteer of Cursus and Related Monuments in the Upper Thames Valley | 216 |
Associated monuments | 222 |
Discussion | 224 |
Probable Roman features in Area B and the salvage area | 116 |
The Saxon and medieval evidence | 123 |
Beaker burial | 130 |
Stone axe by Fiona Roe | 134 |
Fired clay by Alistair Barclay | 148 |
Synthesis and Discussion of Cursus Monuments in the Upper Thames Valley and their | 234 |
purpose and construction | 240 |
The labour requirements for the construction of the Drayton North cursus | 246 |
Index | 261 |
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Gravelly Guy, Stanton Harcourt: The Development of a Prehistoric and Romano ... George Lambrick,T. G. Allen Visualização de excertos - 2004 |
Late Bronze Age Ritual and Habitation on a Thames Eyot at Whitecross Farm ... Anne Marie Cromarty Visualização de excertos - 2006 |