Locock, M., Trett, R. and Lawler, M. (2000). Further late prehistoric features on the foreshore at Chapeltump, Magor, Monmouthshire:. Studia Celtica 34. Vol 34, pp. 17-48.

Title:

Further late prehistoric features on the foreshore at Chapeltump, Magor, Monmouthshire:

Subtitle:

Chapeltump II and the Upton trackway

Issue:

Studia Celtica 34

Series:

Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies

Volume:

Page Start/End:

17 - 48

Biblio Note

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Publication Type:

Journal

Abstract:

Report on a dense finds scatter and a section of trackway, part of a series of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age features exposed on the foreshore of Magor. Intermittent fieldwork recovered a large assemblage of prehistoric pottery and other finds, and palaeo-environmental data and a series of radiocarbon dates provide a chronology of landscape exploitation and environmental change for the first half of the first millennium BC. It would appear that the area was used for a range of craft activities (including pottery-making), hunting, fishing and summer pasture, in the face of increasing marine flooding. The trackway provided access to a tidal creek, presumably for fishing. Includes specialist reports on

Author:

Martin Locock

R Trett
M Lawler

Year of Publication:

2000

Subjects / Periods:

IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
Trackway (Auto Detected Subject)
	SHERD (Object England)
First Millennium Bc (Auto Detected Temporal)
Flooding (Auto Detected Subject)
Radiocarbon Dates (Auto Detected Subject)
LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)

Note:

[OS ST 4470 8514, PRN 3979g] [OS ST 4464 8504, PRN 3980g]

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

12 May 2005