Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities : Supplementary Material.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Needham, Stuart.

Contributor:

Anelay, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mounds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2022.

Summary:

Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014-18. It integrates a wealth of data from comprehensive field study of all relevant sites in the region with that from excavations into one of its major cemeteries - Petersfield Heath, Hampshire. Fourteen of 21 surviving barrows were sampled by excavation, one of the fullest records for such a cemetery in modern times. In addition to diverse burial rites, the site yielded a range of 'other significant deposits' and totally novel insights into the organic artefact repertoire thanks to mineral replacement.Amongst the supplementary material in this volume are: a crucial new analysis of enclosure barrows in Wessex; further analyses regarding barrow morphologies, condition, cemetery formation and siting; observations on damage and recommendations on the future management of the archaeology of Petersfield Heath; detailed context descriptions for the block-lifted urns and log-coffin burial subjected to pioneering stratigraphic micro-excavation; summaries of palaeoenvironmental evidence from the region; the full report on quartz optical dating; a major re-assessment of the excavated ring-ditch at Heath End, Duncton; further detail on finds; and details on various methodologies and definitions employed in the volume. Together the two volumes contain much new for those researching the period, early burial practices and the prehistoric occupation of the western Weald. They will also galvanise debates about variations in the character of barrowscapes across Britain and the place of the

Wessex barrow foci.

Contents:

Intro

Appendix 1.1

Detailed observations on damage to monuments and recommendations on the future management of the archaeology of Petersfield Heath

Appendix 1.2

Synopsis of the People of the Heath project (2014)

Appendix 1.3

List of consulted maps showing Petersfield Heath

Appendix 5.1

Calculations for the area of land stripped to make the western tump in Barrow 4

Appendix 7.1

Modern mounds and 'enclosures' on the Heath and the islands in the Pond

Appendix 8.1

Matrix of micro-excavated contexts at the base of the log coffin, Barrow 19, grave [406]

Appendix 8.2

Special finds (SF) associated with the base of the log coffin, Barrow 19

Appendix 9.1

Special finds (SF) associated with the urn burials

Appendix 9.2

Summary table of micro-excavated contexts for Urn 1, Barrow 8

Appendix 9.3

Summary table of micro-excavated contexts for Urn 2, Barrow 19

Appendix 9.4

Summary table of micro-excavated contexts for Urn 3, Barrow 19

Appendix 9.5

Summary table of micro-excavated contexts for Urn 4, Barrow 14

Appendix 11.1

Spreadsheet for human bone identifications

Appendix 12.1

Selected drawings of Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) and Mesolithic flintwork

Appendix 12.2

Site 23 microlithic component

Appendix 12.3

Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites within the study area

Appendix 13.1

Appendix 13.1 Other post-medieval to modern finds

Appendix 13.2

Details of unworked stone material and daub

Appendix 13.3

Petrographic analysis of eight stone objects

Appendix 13.4

Lipid analysis of sherds from Petersfield Heath

Appendix 13.5

Further details on mineral-replaced organics and other soil forms

Appendix 13.6

Report on the compositional analysis of the Bronze Age beads

Appendix 13.7

Virtual model of the Barrow 13 cremation-sack handle.

Appendix 13.8

Processing, recording and conserving the mineral-replaced wooden handle, ORG13

Appendix 13.9

Further details of wood from Barrows 19 and 24

Appendix 14.1

Further aspects of the excavated soils

Appendix 15.1

Quartz optical dating report

Appendix 16.1

Register of barrows and potential barrows in the Rother Region

Appendix 16.2

Barrow register fields: definitions and notations

Appendix 16.3

Field methods and database creation for the Regional Barrow Survey

Appendix 16.4

Summary table of the landscape relationships of potential enclosure barrows

Appendix 16.5

Further aspects of barrow morphology

Appendix 16.6

Comparative analysis of enclosure barrows in Wessex

Appendix 16.7

Effects of denudation and damage on dimensions, including volume

Appendix 17.1

Barrow occurrence in relation to geology

Appendix 17.2

Further detail on soils in the Rother Region

Appendix 17.3

Further aspects of topographic siting

Appendix 17.4

Definition of barrow groups, subgroups, pairs and singletons

Appendix 17.5

Barrow-group formations and their topographic setting

Appendix 18.1

Descriptions of barrow groups, pairs and singletons by Zone

Appendix 18.2

Details on the mapping of land-use categories

Appendix 19.1

Bronze Age burial evidence from the Rother Region

Appendix 19.2

Re-assessment of the Heath End Duncton ring-ditch (9618/13)

Appendix 19.3

Evaluation of radiocarbon dates from West Heath Common

Appendix 20.1

Summaries of palaeo-environmental evidence from sites in the Rother Region

Appendix 20.2

Summary table of diagnostic Neolithic flintwork from the Rother Region

Appendix 20.3

Notes on the transcription of boundaries and other features shown in text Figures 20.8‑20.13

Appendix 20.4.

Neolithic to Earliest Iron Age non-funerary structures and material culture in the Rother Region

Appendix 20.5

Summary table of later prehistoric flintwork assemblages from the Rother Region

Appendix 20.6

Summary table of diagnostic Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age flintwork from the Rother Region

Appendix 20.7

Summary table of Bronze Age metalwork from the Rother Region

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Other Format:

Print version: Needham, Stuart Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities

ISBN:

94-6426-048-3

OCLC:

1305842434