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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825232203321

Autore

Jackson Robin (Robin Andrew)

Titolo

Huntsman's Quarry, Kemerton : a late Bronze Age settlement and landscape in Worcestershire / / Robin Jackson ; with contributions by Alex Bayliss [and thirteen others] ; illustrated by Laura Templeton, Carolyn Hunt and Steve Rigby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Havertown, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78297-995-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

936.2/449

Soggetti

Quarries and quarrying - England - Worcestershire

Bronze age - England - Worcestershire

Huntsman's Quarry Site (Kemerton, England)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Introduction -- Background -- Location, geology and topography -- Archaeological and historical background -- Project history -- Aims -- Methodology / Robin Jackson and Mike Napthan -- Part 2. Dating and structural evidence -- Radiocarbon dating / Alex Bayliss, Robin Jackson and Christopher Bronk Ramsey -- Earlier prehistoric activity / Robin Jackson and Mike Napthan -- The late Bronze Age activity / Robin Jackson and Mike Napthan -- Part 3. Artefactual evidence -- Prehistoric pottery / Ann Woodward and Robin Jackson -- Petrology / David F. Williams -- Ceramic weights / Derek Hurst -- Stone weight / Derek Hurst -- Fired clay / Derek Hurst -- The mould fragments and slag / Roger C.P. Doonan -- Worked flint / Peter Bellamy -- Other finds -- Worked timbers / Ian Tyers -- Part 4. Environmental evidence -- Animal bone / Stephanie Pinter-Bellows -- Human bone / Stephanie Pinter-Bellows -- Cremated bone / Stephanie Pinter-Bellows -- The plant macrofossils / Elizabeth Pearson -- The pollen / James Greig -- Molluscs / Andrew Moss -- Environmental synthesis / Elizabeth Pearson -- Part 5. Discussion and synthesis -- Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic -- Neolithic -- Beaker -- Early Bronze



Age -- Late Bronze Age -- Appendices: 1. Additional pottery tables and figures --2. Pottery fabrics / Derek Hurst and Robin Jackson.