Title: |
Rotherwas, Herefordshire: Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating of Sediment Samples |
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Historic England Research Reports
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Publication Type: |
Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A series of twenty-five OSL samples were collected from prehistoric deposits exposed in the construction corridor of a new access road, linking the A49 and the Holme Lacy Road in the Rotherwas Industrial Estate south-east of Hereford (see Fig 1). The samples relate to a c 50m wide linear paved feature discovered in 2007 and which runs along the full 3.3km length of the access route. The site includes a dispersed scatter of middle Neolithic and mid-to-late Bronze Age pits and postholes. Initial dating evidence was limited to a small number of features and generally remained tentative due to the absence of firmly diagnostic cultural material, with only a single pit containing late Neolithic flint and Grooved Ware pottery. A nearby Roman ditch cut through a series of colluvial deposits sealing a compact sandy horizon containing probable Iron Age pottery and overlying a surface which appears to have been constructed using cobbles and pebbles, a feature which was later to become known as the 'Rotherwas Ribbon'. |
Author: |
Jean-Luc Schwenninger
I Bapty
D Peat
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Publisher: |
Historic England
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Herefordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2013
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Locations: |
Site: |
The Rotherwas Ribbon |
Parish: |
LOWER BULLINGHAM |
District: |
Herefordshire, County of |
County: |
Herefordshire |
Country: |
England |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Rotherwas Ribbon |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Holme Lacy Road |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Hereford |
Grid Reference: 352440, 237280 (Easting, Northing)
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Subjects / Periods: |
UNCERTAIN
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N/A
(Find)
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LATER PREHISTORIC
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STRUCTURE
(Monument Type England)
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2007 (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Roman (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
MIDDLE NEOLITHIC
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FIELD SURVEY
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NEOLITHIC
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Bronze Age Pits (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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Identifiers: |
OASIS Id: |
englishh2-149101 |
OBIB: |
24/2013 |
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Note: |
A4 heat-bound report of 23pp.
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Created Date: |
25 Nov 2016 |