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Prehistoric landscape to Roman villa : excavations at Beddington, Surrey, 1981-7 / Isca Howell (ed.).
Penn Museum Library DA677.1 .P58 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- MoLAS monograph ; 26.
- MoLAS monograph
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Roman.
- Beddington (Sutton, London, England)--Antiquities.
- Beddington (Sutton, London, England).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--England--London.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- England--London.
- Beddington (Sutton, London, England)--Antiquities, Roman.
- Romans--England--London.
- Romans.
- Architecture, Roman--England--London.
- Architecture, Domestic--England--London.
- London (England)--Antiquities.
- London (England).
- London (England)--Antiquities, Roman.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 135 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [London, England] ; Museum of London Archaeology Service, [publisher not identified], 2005.
- Language Note:
- Summaries in English, French, and German.
- Summary:
- Excavations at Beddington have uncovered a long occupation sequence, which includes Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age fields, a Late Iron Age enclosed settlement and early Roman finds. A villa was established at the site in the late 2nd century AD and included a house, bathhouse and five other buildings, two of which were barns, although there was no direct evidence of crop or livestock production.
- Contents:
- 1.1 Previous archaeological investigations on the site 1
- 1.2 Circumstances of excavation 1
- 1.3 Organisation of the report 4
- 1.4 Reference to archival material 5
- 1.5 Textual and graphical conventions 5
- Stratigraphical conventions 5
- Finds conventions 5
- Graphical conventions 5
- 2 Chronological narrative
- 2.1 Geology and topography (period 1) 7
- 2.2 Earlier prehistory of the upper Wandle valley (period 2) 7
- 2.3 Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age landscape (period 3) 10
- Evidence of a field system 10
- Other features 11
- Period 3 discussion 12
- 2.4 Iron Age settlement (period 4) 12
- Pre-settlement occupation 12
- The enclosure 12
- Ring-ditches 14
- Structures within the Iron Age settlement 14
- Features outside the enclosure 16
- Development of the settlement 17
- Period 4 discussion 18
- 2.5 Early Roman fields (period 5) 20
- Field ditches 20
- Soil accumulation 23
- Burials 23
- Within the fields 23
- Cobbled surfaces 24
- Period 5 discussion 25
- 2.6 The Roman villa (period 6) 26
- Yard surfaces 26
- Soil layers 27
- Evidence of earlier buildings 27
- The villa house (B1) 28
- The bathhouse (B2) 28
- Other villa complex buildings (B3, B4 and B5) 31
- The changing landscape 32
- Barns (B6 and B7) 32
- Other features 35
- Period 6 discussion 35
- 2.7 Alterations to the villa (period 7) 37
- The villa house (B1) 37
- The bathhouse (B2) 38
- The surrounding landscape 39
- Barn (B8) and associated features 40
- Other features 44
- Period 7 discussion 44
- 2.8 Abandonment of the villa and summary of post-Roman activity (period 8) 45
- The villa house (B1) 45
- The bathhouse (B2) 46
- The other buildings 46
- Pit [P66] 47
- The absence of Saxon features 47
- The medieval period 47
- The post-medieval period 47
- 3 The upper Wandle valley in the later prehistoric and Roman periods
- 3.2 Late Bronze Age field systems 48
- 3.3 Iron Age enclosures 50
- 3.4 Agriculture in the Late Iron Age and early Roman period 50
- 3.5 The Beddington villa and its environs 51
- 4 Specialist appendices
- 4.2 Overview of accessioned Roman finds 54
- 4.3 The building stone 57
- 4.4 The stone objects 58
- Perforated hammerhead 58
- Quernstones 58
- Rubbing stones 59
- Sharpening stones 59
- Spindle whorls 60
- 4.5 The worked flint 60
- Retouched forms 61
- Flint axe 61
- 4.6 The daub 61
- 4.7 The tiles 61
- Tile fabrics 61
- Tile types 62
- Roller-stamped tile 62
- Chimney pot 63
- Tesserae 63
- 4.8 The fired-clay objects 63
- Perforated clay slabs 63
- Briquetage 64
- Loom weights 64
- Fired-clay spindle whorls 65
- A lamp 65
- Other objects 65
- 4.9 The prehistoric pottery 66
- The pottery fabrics 66
- The Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age pottery (period 3) 68
- The later Iron Age pottery (period 4) 70
- 4.10 The Roman pottery 72
- The pottery fabrics 72
- The coarse wares 72
- A stamped mortarium 76
- A cremation urn 76
- The amphorae 76
- The samian ware 76
- 4.11 The post-Roman pottery 79
- 4.12 The mortar 79
- Analysis of the mortar 80
- 4.13 The painted plaster 80
- Analysis of the painted plaster 81
- 4.14 The glass 82
- Roman glass 82
- 4.15 The iron objects 83
- 4.16 The Bronze Age metalwork 87
- 4.17 The Iron Age brooches 88
- 4.18 The Roman brooches 89
- 4.19 Other copper-alloy objects 93
- 4.20 The lead objects 96
- 4.21 The Late Iron Age coins 97
- 4.22 The Roman coins 98
- 4.23 The wood remains 99
- The samples 99
- Methodology 99
- Results 100
- 4.24 The plant remains 101
- Introduction and methodology 101
- Description of the material and criteria for some of the identifications 101
- Analysis 102
- Results 102
- 4.25 The animal bones 113
- Methodology 114
- Results 114
- 4.26 The worked bone and antler objects 116
- Hairpins 116
- Bone needles 117
- Other objects 117
- Antler artefacts 117
- 4.27 The leather 119
- One-piece shoe (carbatina) 119
- Nailed shoes 119
- 4.28 The mollusc shells 122
- Marine molluscs 122
- Terrestrial molluscs 122
- 4.29 The human bones 123.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-132) and index.
- ISBN:
- 190199256X
- OCLC:
- 61424372
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