Saved From the Grave - Neolithic to Saxon Discoveries At Spring Road Municipal Cemetery,

Klappentext Excavations at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery, Abingdon, Oxfordshire have revealed activity extending from the Mesolithic to the Saxon period. The most significant discovery was an arc of substantial postholes which formed part of one of very few middle Bronze timber circles known in southern Britain. The most important earlier evidence was a Beaker burial containing a copper awl which is amongst the earliest metal artefacts from Britain. Mesolithic flint, an oval Peterborough Ware bowl and a Grooved Ware pit were also found. A group of three middle Iron Age crouched inhumation burials are amongst the most interesting later finds, which included also an early-middle Iron Age roundhouse, a Roman field system and Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured buildings. Zusammenfassung Excavations at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery! Abingdon! Oxfordshire have revealed activity extending from the Mesolithic to the Saxon period. The most significant discovery was an arc of substantial postholes which formed part of one of very few middle Bronze timber circles known in southern Britain.

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• Authors: T. G. Allen, T. G. Kamash Allen, T.G. Allen, T.g. Kamash Allen, ALLEN T G KAMASH Z, Z. Kamash, Zena Kamash
• Assisted by: Peter Lorimer (Illustration)
• Publisher: Oxford uni commitee archaeolog
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2008
• EAN: 9780954962760
• ISBN: 978-0-9549627-6-0
• No. of pages: 106
• Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph; Thames Valley Landscapes Monog; Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph; Thames Valley Landscapes Monog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity