Early Pre-Roman Iron Age Communities in Eastern England

Cunliffe, Barry

doi:10.1017/s0003581500034879

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“…The distinctive class IV bowls are closely similar to vessels from Darmsden which Cunliffe (1968) has used as part of the criteria for his Darmsden-Linton style. Jars with T-shaped or expanded rims are also common amongst Darmsden-Linton groups (Cunliffe 1968, fig.…”

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A Late Bronze Age Enclosure at Lofts Farm, Essex

Brown

Holgate²,

Major

et al. 1988

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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A double-ditched sub-rectangular enclosure measuring c.42 by 48 m was excavated. It was shown to have been a Late Bronze Age settlement, with a single central roundhouse opposite the only entrance, and with a rectangular structure in one corner. The site produced a typical range of Late Bronze Age artefacts. The site is low-lying, and environmental data from the waterlogged fills of a well indicate an open landscape of damp grassland. These factors together with the absence of waste from the earliest stages of crop-cleaning among carbonized plant remains from the enclosure, point to a primarily pastoral economy.A few Neolithic features and artefacts were also found but these are not considered to represent permanent settlement.

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A Late Bronze Age Enclosure at Lofts Farm, Essex

Brown

Holgate²,

Major

et al. 1988

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“…Double rows of finger-tip impressions on Class I jars also occur at Heathrow on a part of the site which also produced pedestal bases and round bodied bowls (I thank Mr R. Canham for allowing me to study the pottery). The bowls are comparable to some from pit 1 at Darmsden, Suffolk, although they lack the burnished surfaces of the Darmsden bowls (Cunliffe 1968, fig. 2).…”

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Excavations at a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure, Orsett, Essex, 1975

Hedges¹,

Buckley

Bonsall

et al. 1978

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The Causewayed Enclosure at Orsett, Essex, was trial trenched in 1975 to determine the state of site preservation and confirm its postulated Neolithic date and site sequence. The enclosure consisted of three incomplete circuits of discontinuous ditch with an associated timber palisade slot lying inside and concentric to the middle ditch. Within the interior was an oval post hole structure of a contemporary date. Quantities of Mildenhall style pottery and flint artifacts of the mid third millennium b.c. were recovered from the primary ditch silts and other features. A small quantity of Late Neolithicf Early Bronze Age wares came from the secondary ditch silts and the interior. Later phases on the site were represented by unenclosed Early Iron Age occupation, a Middle Iron Age sub-rectangular enclosure and Saxon ring-ditch burials.

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“…The use of conspicuous funerary vessels, though not unknown in this period, was evidently rare (Clarke, 1940). However, where huts or rubbish pits have been excavated, as at Brantham, Darmsden (Cunliffe, 1968), Fakenham, Wattisfield (Wacher, 1961) the same depressing lack of artifacts of bone or metal has prevailed.…”

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The Ipswich Gold Torcs

Owles¹

1969

Antiquity

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On 26th September 1968, a hoard of jive gold Early Iron Age torcs was found during building operations on the Belstead Estate, Ipswich, Suffolk. Thejinder, who was employed as a diggerdriver by J. Gerrard and Sons, was MY Malcolm Tricker, aged 26, who has been awarded L45,OOO as an ex gratia payment for what was declared to be Treasure Trove. In this article Miss Elizabeth Owles, Keeper of Archaeology in the Ipswich Museums and Art Galleries, describes this remarkable find. She is grateful to the British Museum Trustees for permission to publish the tmcs and for supplying the photographs, and thanks Mr John Brailsford for allowing facilities to study them, Dr A. Werner and MY P. Shover for providing additional information, and Miss Jean Burns of Glasgow University, Miss Barbara Greenof the Norwich Museums, and Mr K. Painter of the British Museum, for various helpful suggestions. (c) The Sedgeford torc (distorted and fragmentary): wt. of surviving fragment 455. jgm.; width of hoop 1.6 cm.; estimated external diam. 18.4 cm. See pp. 208-12] [Phutos: British Museum C C

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Early Pre-Roman Iron Age Communities in Eastern England

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

A Late Bronze Age Enclosure at Lofts Farm, Essex

A Late Bronze Age Enclosure at Lofts Farm, Essex

Excavations at a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure, Orsett, Essex, 1975

The Ipswich Gold Torcs

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