| Title: |
Prehistoric Landscape at Stowe Farm, West Deeping, Lincolnshire. Phase 3C (Report No. N19) |
| Number of Pages: |
36 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
Five groups of features were identified which included a Bronze Age/Iron Age farmstead, Iron Age enclosure with associated trackway linking into the Late Iron Age settlement located to the north, plus evidence of smithying. Excavations suggested a model of generally open Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron Age landscape with a major north-south landscape division and a scatter of buildings and farmsteads related to agricultural activity. The major north-south boundary may have divided the landscape for agricultural purposes and possibly controlled livestock access through to 'community stockyards' of the type identified within Fengate, Peterborough. The spatial and environmental evidence was indicative of dispersed activity and small amounts of charred grain and animal bone suggested low intensity agricultural practices. A number of ritual sites including ring ditches had also been identified. The later Iron Age landscape showed greater structure and organisation, with pit and post-defined enclosures delineating enclosed fields with associated buildings. By the later Iron Age and early Roman period these prehistoric ditch systems appeared to have become obsolete and during Roman times trackways and boundary ditches were cut across the earlier fields. [Au(abr)] |
| Author: |
A Hatton
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| Publisher: |
Cambridgeshire County Council Archaeological Field Unit
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| Year of Publication: |
2000
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Stowe Farm |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Fengate Peterborough |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2000
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: STOWE FARM, WEST DEEPING
Study area: 1.2ha
Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: South Kesteven
Monument: TRACKWAY. Roman (AD43-410), POST HOLE. Bronze Age, TRACKWAY. Iron Age, [finds]. Roman (AD43-410), [finds]. Neolithic, DITCH. Iron Age, SETTLEMENT. Iron Age, [finds]. Bronze Age, PIT. Undated, HEARTH. Iron Age, ENCLOSURE. Iron Age, BUILDING. Undated, [find
Ngr: TF10001110
Parish: Tallington
Postcode: PE6 9SF
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
