Abstract:This paper presents findings within Wyman Abbott's long-missing
notebooks and other allied archival sources relating to his Fengate
fieldwork during the early decades of the 20th century. Largely focusing
upon its monuments, we here publish a manuscript concerned with his
extraordinary, multiple-interment 'great' ringditch which is otherwise known
from a paragraph's description in Hawkes and … Show more
“…suggests that isolated cremations and cremation pairs were located at round barrows across East Anglia and into Lincolnshire. However sizeable cremation groupings – comprising more than ten burials – such as those at round barrows along the lower Great Ouse valley are relatively rare (see Evans & Appleby 2008 for the only other example within the study area). This raises the possibility that a particular emphasis on interring cremations relatively formally at existing round barrows emerged amongst communities along the river Great Ouse during the later Bronze Age. Fig.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the east of England, it appears that specific ideas about how to bury human remains at round barrows were shared at a valley-wide scale (cf. Evans & Appleby 2008). Meanwhile understandings of how to deal with enduring round barrows during the construction of field systems were devised more locally.…”
Section: Discussion: Round Barrows and Wider Understandings Of The Lamentioning
This paper presents a systematic study of later Bronze Age practices at round barrows – features that are typically seen as emblematic of the Early Bronze Age in Britain. Examining the evidence from 87 excavated round barrows in the east of England, it adds subtlety and empirical detail to previous discussions about the changing role of funerary monuments over the course of the 2nd millennium bc. A wide variety of activities was undertaken at existing round barrows in the later Bronze Age. Burials were added, the monuments themselves were augmented and replicated, they were often actively built into land boundary systems, and settlements were located close to them. The findings not only attest to the continued (if shifting) significance of round barrows in the later Bronze Age, they also contribute substantially to wider debates about the character of life during this period in lowland Britain – the shifting relationship between ‘ritual’ and ‘everyday’ practices, and the processes by which mobile communities began to settle down. More broadly, this investigation adds to a growing body of work that explores the multi-temporal qualities of later prehistoric landscapes.
“…suggests that isolated cremations and cremation pairs were located at round barrows across East Anglia and into Lincolnshire. However sizeable cremation groupings – comprising more than ten burials – such as those at round barrows along the lower Great Ouse valley are relatively rare (see Evans & Appleby 2008 for the only other example within the study area). This raises the possibility that a particular emphasis on interring cremations relatively formally at existing round barrows emerged amongst communities along the river Great Ouse during the later Bronze Age. Fig.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the east of England, it appears that specific ideas about how to bury human remains at round barrows were shared at a valley-wide scale (cf. Evans & Appleby 2008). Meanwhile understandings of how to deal with enduring round barrows during the construction of field systems were devised more locally.…”
Section: Discussion: Round Barrows and Wider Understandings Of The Lamentioning
This paper presents a systematic study of later Bronze Age practices at round barrows – features that are typically seen as emblematic of the Early Bronze Age in Britain. Examining the evidence from 87 excavated round barrows in the east of England, it adds subtlety and empirical detail to previous discussions about the changing role of funerary monuments over the course of the 2nd millennium bc. A wide variety of activities was undertaken at existing round barrows in the later Bronze Age. Burials were added, the monuments themselves were augmented and replicated, they were often actively built into land boundary systems, and settlements were located close to them. The findings not only attest to the continued (if shifting) significance of round barrows in the later Bronze Age, they also contribute substantially to wider debates about the character of life during this period in lowland Britain – the shifting relationship between ‘ritual’ and ‘everyday’ practices, and the processes by which mobile communities began to settle down. More broadly, this investigation adds to a growing body of work that explores the multi-temporal qualities of later prehistoric landscapes.
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