Bronze Age monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon landscapes at Cambridge Road, Bedford / Andy Chapman, Pat Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Andy, 1951- author.

Chapman, Pat, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeopress archaeology

Archaeopress Archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Bedford (England)--Antiquities.

Bedford (England).

Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Bedford.

England--Bedford.

Physical Description:

xiv, 146 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2017]

Summary:

Open area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford was carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. A background scatter of Early Neolithic flint, including a Langdale stone axe, may be related to the nearby presence of the Cardington causewayed enclosure.0Two Early Bronze Age ring ditches sat on a low lying gravel ridge between the River Great Ouse and the Elstow Brook. A causewayed ring ditch, 30m in diameter, had a broad entrance to the southwest, where a shallow length of ditch either silted or had been filled in. Adjacent to the shallow ditch was a pit containing three crouched burials, probably in an oak-lined chamber, radiocarbon dated to the early Middle Bronze Age. A nearby small round barrow enclosed a deep central grave containing the crouched burial of a woman, probably within an oak-lined chamber. An L-shaped ditch to the east, radiocarbon dated to the Middle to Late Bronze transition, may have been the final feature of the monument group. It parallels the addition of L-shaped ditches/pit alignments at other contemporary ring ditch monuments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146)..

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781784916046

1784916048

OCLC:

992942146

Publisher Number:

99973831116