Cornish Bronze Age Ceremonial Landscapes c. 2500-1500 BC

Jones, Andy M.

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“…The relationship between the inner ring of the cairn and the orthostat of the row was such that the excavator believed there was no break in activity at the site. A radiocarbon date from under the inner ring of the cairn made on oak charcoal calibrates to 2040-1620 cal BC (Griffith 1984;Jones 2005), providing a best-estimate date for the row at around the early second millennium BC.…”

Section: Stone Rows: Form and Assumed Chronologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This latter date is around the period of time to which most authors attribute the start of construction of linear monuments on the uplands of the south-west and elsewhere (Burl 1993;Butler 1997;Jones 2005). But it here seems irrefutable that this particular row is of fourth-millennium BC date (even if the humic dates from under stone 9 are preferred) and hence Neolithic rather than early Bronze Age, and whichever form model is preferred (upright or recumbent), most likely to belong to the earlier, rather than later, Neolithic.…”

Section: The Chronology Of the Monumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They describe an initial Neolithic with no or little monument construction (with deposition in pits, e.g. Jones 2005); increasing emphasis on marking the dead in local social groups (reflected in long barrow construction) around 3800 cal BC; and larger congregation and construction of enclosures within southern Britain around 3700 cal BC (Oswald et al 2001). The dating presented here suggests that the stone row on Cut Hill is most likely to fall into the latter period described by Whittle et al (2008).…”

Section: The Chronology Of the Monumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The date and context of a stone row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, south-west England

Fyfe¹,

Greeves

2010

Antiquity

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The beginning of monolithic monumentality in Europe is of outstanding significance and its accurate dating a consummation devoutly to be wished. In this case study from England, the researchers had the good fortune to find monoliths stratified above and below by peat and so were able to give them a bracketed radiocarbon date and an environmental context. The results show that the stones, belonging to a linear alignment of eight others, were erected in a clearing of heathland in the fourth millennium BC. The date raises the possibility of a Neolithic appearance for this type of stone row in south-west Britain and Britanny.

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The date and context of a stone row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, south-west England

Fyfe¹,

Greeves

2010

Antiquity

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“…The significance of such locations continued during the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age as monument construction proliferated and continued to appropriate and incorporate landscape features in their symbolic schemes. Jones (2005), in his examination of barrow groups from Cornwall and Devon, discovered them to be constructed in locations from which the views of prominent landscape features could be seen in different ways, depending on viewpoint. Thus, topography was incorporated into the conceptual scheme of the monument, creating a seamless ceremonial landscape.…”

Section: Landscape and Placementioning

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“…Given the location of Roman Lode, largely on the summit of Burcombe, the environment of the site was probably open and the ridges forming the surrounding skylines clearly visible. Many of these ridges are the sites of barrow groups and stone settings and mounds and it seems possible that conceptual relationships existed between them and prominent natural locations such as Roman Lode in the same way as in the rest of Cornwall and Devon (Jones 2005). As a result, all would have been bound together in a phenomenological and ideological landscape rich in meaning to those who knew and understood the stories, legends, history and references or classifications of the world on which it was based.…”

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Minerals, Metal, Colours and Landscape: Exmoor's Roman Lode in the Early Bronze Age

Juleff

Bray

2007

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Outcrops of metallic mineralization were potentially prominent locations in past landscapes, the characteristics of their constituent minerals granting them distinctive appearances and properties. To date, most treatments have cast humans as exploiters whose prime motivation for engagement with the mineral world was the acquisition of metals. This article examines new evidence for Early Bronze Age activity at Roman Lode, a predominantly iron-rich ore deposit on Exmoor in southwest Britain. In addition to assessing whether this represents metal exploitation, other interpretive avenues are explored including the potential role of the site as a provider of other resources such as pigments and quartz and as an element in a wider conceptual and physical landscape. A layered approach to the interpretation of such sites is advocated. Only by combining a cognitive interpretation with materialist perspectives will we arrive at a more insightful understanding of the past significance of minerals, mining and landscape.

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The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Bradley¹

2019

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The existence of Britain and Ireland posed a problem for the geographers of the Classical world ( Fig. 1.1 ). Their experience was limited to the Mediterranean where they had devised a scheme which saw the cosmos as a circular disc with the sea at its centre. For Hecataeus of Miletus, the land extended northwards into what is now Europe, southwards into Africa, and to the east as far as India, but beyond all these regions there was a river, Oceanus , which encircled the earth and marked the outer limit of the world ( Fig. 1.2 ). Only the dead could reach its farther shore; for Procopius writing in sixth-century Byzantium Britain was a land of ghosts (West 2007 : 390). There were two routes communicating directly between the inner sea and the most distant margin of the land. One was by the Arabian Gulf, whilst the second led through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic (Cunliff e 2001a : 2-6).Strictly speaking, the two islands studied in this book were beyond the limits of the world and so they could not exist, yet, as often happens, theory came into confl ict with practical experience. Long before the expansion of the Roman Empire there were reasons for questioning the traditional cosmology. Not long after 4000 bc axes made in the western Alps were distributed as far as the north of Scotland (Pétrequin et al. 2012 . It is no longer believed that Stonehenge was designed by a Mycenaean architect, but there seem to have been some connections between Britain, Northern Europe and the Aegean during the second millennium bc (Kristiansen and Larsson 2005 ). In the fi rst millennium, contacts between the Mediterranean and these outer islands intensifi ed during what is known as the Atlantic Bronze Age (Ruiz-Gálvez Priego 1998 ), and, later still, there are ceramic vessels of Greek origin among the fi nds from the Thames and other English rivers where they occur in similar contexts to metalwork of local manufacture and must have been deposited during the Iron Age (Bradley and A. Smith 2007 ).

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Cornish Bronze Age Ceremonial Landscapes c. 2500-1500 BC

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The date and context of a stone row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, south-west England

The date and context of a stone row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, south-west England

Minerals, Metal, Colours and Landscape: Exmoor's Roman Lode in the Early Bronze Age

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

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