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A Road Through the Past Archaeological discoveries on the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham road-scheme in Kent Alan Hardy (Author); Kelly Powell (Author); Tim Allen (Author); Michael Donnelly (Author) Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dating to the sixteenth century AD. Most exciting were rich cremation burials of the late Iron Age and early Roman periods, probably successive generations of a local family, whose rise to prominence coincides with the growth of the cult centre at Springhead nearby. The metal vessels include types new to Britain, the pottery stamps suggest the movement of continental potters to Kent, and one grave has the clearest evidence of furniture yet found from early Roman Britain. Medieval settlements of the late 11th–14th centuries mirror the renewed importance of Watling Street after the Norman conquest, and its eventual return to obscurity due to competition from the ferry from London to Gravesend. 9780904220681, £32.00, Available Now HB, 620p, 267 illus & 91 plates (mostly colour), OA Monograph Series 16, Oxford Archaeology British Archaeology – Multi-Period Excavations 10 From Mesolithic to Motorway The Archaeology of the M1 (Junction 6a–10) Widening Scheme, Hertfordshire Andrew Simmonds (Editor); Paul Booth (Editor); Dan Stansbie (Editor); Valerie Diez (Editor) Excavation in advance of engineering works along the M1 from Junctions 6a to 10 (between Hemel Hempstead and Luton) revealed significant archaeological remains of wide-ranging date. Important evidence for late Mesolithic and early Neolithic activity, including pits, was found at Junction 9, while later prehistoric features were more widely distributed but less concentrated. Late Iron Age and Roman features were most common, with significant rural settlements at Junctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for trackways and enclosures elsewhere. Occupation was most intensive in the 1st–2nd centuries AD and on a reduced scale in the late Roman period. At Junction 8, however, an east-west trackway apparently survived as a landscape feature and in the 12th and 13th centuries was adjoined by a ditched enclosure containing structures belonging to a substantial farmstead. 9780904220650, £20.00, January 2013 PB, 230p, 110 illus., Oxford Archaeology Monographs 14, Oxford Archaeology London Gateway Iron Age and Roman salt making in the Thames Estuary, Excavation at Stanford Wharf Nature Reserve, Essex Edward Biddulph (Editor); Elizabeth Stafford (Editor); Stuart Foreman (Editor); Dan Stansbie (Editor) Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2009 during construction of the Stanford Wharf Nature Reserve, funded and supported by the developer, DP World London Gateway, uncovered remarkable evidence for Iron Age and Roman-period salt making and associated activities. Structures included a probable boathouse, unique in Roman Britain. The excavations shed new and important light on evolving methods of salt production, which reflect wider changes in economy and society in the Thames Estuary between c. 400 BC and AD 400. Salt had a particular economic importance in the ancient world as a food preservative – changing scale and methods of production provide an essential background for understanding processes such as urbanisation, civilian trade and military supply. 9789491431074, £42, August 2012 9780904220711, £20.00, January 2013 HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis HB, 209p, 178 (mostly col.), Oxford Archaeology Monographs 18, Oxford Archaeology
Longbridge Deverill Cow Down An Early Iron Age Settlement in West Wiltshire Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (Author); Christopher Hawkes (Author); Lisa Brown (Author) The early Iron Age settlement at Longbridge Deverill Cow Down, Wiltshire is justly regarded as one of the type sites of the British Iron Age. During four brief seasons of excavation between 1956 and 1960 Sonia Chadwick Hawkes investigated three enclosures and revealed the well-preserved remains of four impressive timber roundhouses. A remarkable collection of pottery associated with the fiery destruction of the roundhouses offers a wealth of new material to consider in the light of other important collections from the region. The release of Hawkes’ archaeological data marks a major contribution to our insight into this intriguing phase of British prehistory. 9781905905256, £25.00, Available Now HB, OUSA MONOGRAPH 76 Oxford University School of Archaeology Landscape and Prehistory of the East London Wetlands Investigations along the A13 DBFO Roadscheme, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham, 2000–2003 Elizabeth Stafford (Author) et al. Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity spanning the Mesolithic through to the post-Roman period. The greatest concentration of activity dates to the 2nd Millenium BC and includes several waterlogged wooden structures and trackways, burnt mounds and other evidence associated with wetland edge occupation. Extensive sampling provides an important record of landscape evolution and periods of major change can be detected, both natural and anthropogenically induced. 9780904220704, £25.00, June 2012 PB, 313p, col & b/w, Oxford Archaeology Monograph 17, Oxford Archaeology Cairns, Fields, and Cultivation Jamie Quartermaine (Author); Roger H Leech (Author) The uplands of the Lake District are famed for their rugged natural beauty, but the reality is that this landscape has been modified and changed by man since the mesolithic period. The remains for this exploitation, particularly from the Bronze Age onwards, survive in abundance across the marginal uplands, particularly in the form of cairnfields. This volume presents the results of a programme of detailed archaeological survey undertaken in the Lake District between 1982 and 1989, mainly on the fells above the west Cumbria coastal plain. It recorded some of the most remarkable cairnfields, field systems, and settlements in England, mostly of late prehistoric date. 9781907686078, £25.00, Available Now HB, 396p, col images, Lancaster Imprints 10 Oxford Archaeology The Neolithic and Bronze Age Enclosures at Springfield Lyons, Essex Excavations 1981–91 Maria Medlycott (Author); Nigel Brown (Author) Excavation of the enclosure at Springfield Lyons quickly established its Late Bronze Age date, and the site now lends its name to a settlement type characteristic, particularly in eastern England, of the Late Bronze Age and earliest Iron Age. Excavation revealed a substantial enclosure ditch divided by causeways of undisturbed natural gravel, and with entrances facing east and west. Remarkable amongst the finds assemblage were two large deposits of clay refractory material, recovered from the ditch by both the east and west entrances. Apart from some crucible fragments, the mould material was almost without exception derived from moulds for casting Ewart Park type swords. 9781841940984, £20.00, June 2013 PB, 200p, 115 illus., East Anglian Archaeology Prehistory – Britain & Ireland 11
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