Excavations at Eldon's Seat, Encombe, Dorset

Cunliffe, Barry; Phillipson, David W.

doi:10.1017/s0079497x00013888

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“…Kimmeridge shale had been a major import throughout the second half of the first millennium. Hand-cut armlets were made in quantity on Purbeck (Calkin 1955, andPhillipson 1968) and transported inland from the eighth/ sixth century onwards: there is evidence that distribution continued throughout the first century BC and into the early first century A D when fine wheel-turned shale vessels found their way to the aristocratic households of eastern Britain (Fig. 15).…”

Section: The Contact-zone and Southern Britainmentioning

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BRITAIN, the VENETI and BEYOND

Cunliffe

1982

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary: Archaeological and documentary evidence for contact between north western France and central southern Britain in the first millennium BC is presented and discussed. the tin trade may well have been the principal motivation for contact until the late second century BC when, following the foundation of Provincia Gallia Transalpina, the Roman‐dominated wine trade appears to have itensified cross‐channel intercourse. the position of Armorican middlemen is considered and port sites such as Alet and Hengistbury are discussed. A Wessex Contact Zone is defined within which overseas trade and local industrial production were focused. the economic and social effects of these systems on other parts of Britain are briefly outlined.

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Section: The Contact-zone and Southern Britainmentioning

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Cunliffe

1982

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…Cunliffe and Phillipson, 1969). Thus this site contributes nothing to ideas of continuity between Middle Bronze Age and final Bronze Age/earliest Iron Age (cf.…”

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The Excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age Settlements at Trevisker, St. Eval, Cornwall

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Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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SummaryThe site was first occupied in the Bronze Age by a small agricultural settlement, consisting of two circular timber houses with ancillary structures and ditches. One house was eventually replaced by a stone structure. A single radiocarbon determination suggests that the settlement is to be dated within the period 1700–1300 B.C. The Iron Age settlement of Trevisker Round was probably established in the second century B.C., if not earlier. An original inner enclosure, half an acre in area, housing a single defended farmstead, was later superseded by a larger defended enclosure, 3 acres in area, also with circular timber houses and occupation areas. This occupation was followed at the end of the first century A.D., by a Romano-British phase of occupation, which lasted until the middle of the second century.

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“…The site comprised an artefact-rich midden associated with five roundhouses dating from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age and is located in a shallow valley on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset (Cunliffe and Phillipson 1968). Reanalysis suggests recovery bias in excavation, as there is a notable dearth of small elements (e.g.…”

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New light on feasting and deposition: exploring accumulation history through taphonomic analysis at later prehistoric middens in Britain

Madgwick

2015

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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This paper explores the potential of using taphonomic analysis to reconstruct broad-scale variation in patterns of consumption and deposition at six later prehistoric midden sites in the UK. These sites comprise large accumulations of material culture, dominated by faunal and ceramic fragments, presumed to result from feasting events during the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition. New artefact and landscape studies have refined the characterisation of these sites (Tubb 2011a, b; Waddington 2009), but little research has focussed on accumulation history. This research uses simple statistical analyses on a large dataset (NISP >20,000) to compare the prevalence of bone modifications between midden sites. Crucially, significant differences in modification are not interpreted directly. Additional tests are undertaken to assess whether variation in assemblage composition could account for differences in modification. Previous research has demonstrated that certain elements and the remains of certain taxa are more likely to exhibit modification, and consequently, a prevalence of these specimens could account for differences, rather than their resulting from varied depositional treatment (Madgwick and Mulville 2012). Therefore, patterns of modification are only interpreted once compositional differences can be discounted from responsibility. The study is intentionally broad in its focus and assesses whether large-scale inter-site differences in depositional practice can be reconstructed. Clear patterns are observed with some middens accumulating predominantly through rapid, large-scale deposits and others building up through smaller, more gradual deposits and being subject to greater disturbance and bone movement. These findings have implications for our understanding of ritualised consumption and deposition at the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in Britain.

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Excavations at Eldon's Seat, Encombe, Dorset

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

BRITAIN, the VENETI and BEYOND

BRITAIN, the VENETI and BEYOND

The Excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age Settlements at Trevisker, St. Eval, Cornwall

New light on feasting and deposition: exploring accumulation history through taphonomic analysis at later prehistoric middens in Britain

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