A late iron age neck-ring from Pentire, Newquay, Cornwall, with a note on the find from Boverton, vale of Glamorgan

Nowakowski, Jacqueline; Gwilt, Adam; Megaw, Vincent; Niece, Susan La

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“…The dating of these burials with grave goods is problematic since in no case does any of the associated skeletal material have a radiocarbon determination (although bone fragments from within the Boverton bracelet have been submitted – see Nowakowski et al . ). However, in all instances burials with grave goods have been assigned a Late Iron Age date.…”

Section: Analysis Of Burial Evidence In Wales: Patterns and Practicesmentioning

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Iron Age Burial in Wales: Patterns, Practices and Problems

Davis

2017

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary. Until the latter part of the twentieth century, Iron Age burial in Britain was thought to be largely archaeologically invisible. However, over the last 40 years the recovery of large assemblages of human remains, often from pits and ditches rather than beneath monumental structures, has changed our understanding of Iron Age funerary practices. The problem, though, is that the majority of this material derives from core areas of study, particularly southern England and Yorkshire. Our knowledge of burial in the more peripheral areas of Britain, such as Wales, is much more poorly understood. The perceived paucity of burials from such regions is often still interpreted as resulting from the practice of archaeologically invisible disposal methods such as excarnation or the scattering of cremated remains. This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of Iron Age human remains in Wales. Although the resource for study is relatively small, a variety of practices, disposal methods and treatments of bodies can be recognized which challenge our current narratives. The scarcity of burials when compared to other parts of Britain, such as Wessex, is suggested to be a result of both poor preservation and bias in archaeological research strategies, rather than the dominance of an 'invisible' burial rite.

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Section: Analysis Of Burial Evidence In Wales: Patterns and Practicesmentioning

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Iron Age Burial in Wales: Patterns, Practices and Problems

Davis

2017

Oxford J Archaeology

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II. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Pearce¹,

Worrell²

2014

Britannia

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Surveys of Roman period finds recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme have been published in Britannia annually since 2004. 1 This eleventh report gives an overview of the finds reported in 2013 and of their character and distribution. As in previous reports, descriptions then follow of significant individual artefacts recorded by Finds Liaison Officers in the year concerned, selected because of their iconography and/or their contribution to the understanding of object type or distribution, in some cases being items not previously recorded in the repertoire of small finds from the province. OVERVIEW Over 33,000 artefacts of Roman date were recorded on the PAS database in 2013, a figure that, as in previous years, includes those finds to which a date has been attributed that spans the late Iron Age and early Roman period. Table 1 shows the number of Roman non-ceramic artefacts recorded on the database by county and grouped by PAS region, and in the following four categories: coins, brooches, other personal adornment and other non-ceramic objects. Like the last two reports this year's summarised form of reporting replaces the former scheme, in which non-ceramic finds were presented in their functional groupings; some adjustment has been made this year to this simplified reporting scheme to reflect the significant numbers of non-brooch personal ornament finds documented. 2 The reports published between 2004 and 2011 present the data according to the major small find functional categories, giving a large sample for characterising PAS finds as a whole and by region.The 2013 finds recorded by the PAS comprise 29,739 objects, excluding ceramics. 3 3,364 fragments of Roman pottery were also reported as well as small quantities of architectural material (tesserae, brick and tile, and wall plaster) and ceramic and stone objects, including sculptural fragments, querns and weights. As in previous reports coins are the most common Roman artefact recorded in the database: the 26,451 individual coin finds documented in 2013 account for 88.9 per cent of the total metallic finds, a higher number than in recent years and a higher than usual percentage of Roman period objects recorded. 4 Those reported this year take the total number of Roman coins documented by the scheme to c. 162,000, a quantity that reflects the continuing impact of the initiative to record large assemblages of Roman coins 1 The Portable Antiquities Scheme was established in 1997 as an initiative to record archaeological objects found by members of the general public and was extended to the whole of England and Wales in 2003. Cf. S. Worrell, 'Roman Britain in 2006 II. Finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme', Britannia 38 (2007), 303. 2 S. Worrell and J. Pearce, 'Roman Britain in 2011 II. Finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme', Britannia 43 (2012), 355-7. 3Full publication of hoards is still provided through the Coin Hoards of Roman Britain series. Coin hoards are also now documented on the PAS database and are currently under st...

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‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives and Burials of Four Roman Londoners

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The Museum of London selected four individuals for multidisciplinary scientific analyses in order to establish their ancestry, aspects of their personal appearance and health. We also reinterpreted their burial context in order to better understand how identity was constructed and expressed in this unique Roman settlement. Our study discovered the presence of people with Black and White European ancestry, some of whom had migrated from the southern Mediterranean. The most surprising result was that Harper Road woman's chromosomes were male. Overall, our experience of undertaking a multidisciplinary study served to further underline the need for these different techniques to be used in combination when investigating past identities. The mtDNA results were very broad and required the mobility isotopes to better understand their significance, while the aDNA evidence confirmed the osteological analysis. In terms of public engagement at the Museum of London, the ability to determine hair and eye colour had a significant impact.

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A late iron age neck-ring from Pentire, Newquay, Cornwall, with a note on the find from Boverton, vale of Glamorgan

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Iron Age Burial in Wales: Patterns, Practices and Problems

Iron Age Burial in Wales: Patterns, Practices and Problems

II. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme

‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives and Burials of Four Roman Londoners

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