Excavations at a Neolithic Cursus, Springfield, Essex, 1979–85

Buckley, D. G.; Hedges, John; Brown, Nigel; Healey, Elizabeth; Hurcombe, Linda; Kelly, Michael S.; Major, H.; Milton, B.; Murphy, Peter; O'Connor, T. P.; Wilkinson, T. J.

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“…At the Springfield Cursus in Essex, Mortlake and Fengate Wares were both present albeit in different fabrics (Buckley et al . , 123–34). The central section of the eastern terminal ditch was the focus for the deposition of Peterborough Ware, with unabraded sherds from several vessels including 28 sherds that could be reconstructed as a large part of a Mortlake Ware bowl.…”

Section: Contexts Of Depositionmentioning

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Revisiting Old Friends: The Production, Distribution and Use of Peterborough Ware in Britain

Ard

Darvill

2015

Oxford J Archaeology

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Peterborough Ware is now recognized as the dominant ceramic tradition of the middle Neolithic in southern Britain during the period 3400-2800 BC, part of a wider north European family of Impressed Wares. Drawing on an extensive inventory of 600 recorded assemblages constructed by enriching previous lists with the results of development-driven research carried out over the last 20 years or so, this paper reviews the production, distribution and use of Peterborough Ware. Support is found for the traditional sub-division of the Peterborough Ware series into three sub-styles: Ebbsfleet, Mortlake and Fengate Wares on the basis of the materials used, forms, and the decorative schemes preferred in each. The overall distribution of Peterborough Ware focuses on south-eastern Britain although there are important assemblages from areas to the west and north, especially those composed of Mortlake Ware. The range of contexts in which Peterborough Ware was deposited is wide, but suggests a backward-looking attitude in which the users of this style of pottery were trying to connect with their past.

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Section: Contexts Of Depositionmentioning

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Revisiting Old Friends: The Production, Distribution and Use of Peterborough Ware in Britain

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Darvill

2015

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…Two further causeways cannot be thus explained and might relate to actual breaks (cf. Buckley et al 2001).…”

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Rudston ‘Cursus A’– Engaging with a Neolithic Monument in Its Landscape Setting Using GIS

Chapman

2003

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary. Cursus monuments are one of the most functionally enigmatic of prehistoric structures. Surrounding Rudston, East Yorkshire, a cluster of at least four cursuses converges on a bend in the Great Wold Valley. Of these monuments, Cursus A, or the ‘Woldgate Cursus’, is particularly unusual, with a curving morphology that forms a ‘dogleg’ plan. The unique shape of this structure provides an opportunity for studying cursus morphology with the aim of interpreting its function – essentially, why does the structure curve in this way? A GIS‐based approach is used which demonstrates a compelling visual relationship between the area enclosed by the cursus and the positions of two long barrows lying on its western horizon. The results of this study are considered in relation to the broader question of cursus function.

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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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Excavations at a Neolithic Cursus, Springfield, Essex, 1979–85

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Revisiting Old Friends: The Production, Distribution and Use of Peterborough Ware in Britain

Revisiting Old Friends: The Production, Distribution and Use of Peterborough Ware in Britain

Rudston ‘Cursus A’– Engaging with a Neolithic Monument in Its Landscape Setting Using GIS

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

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