Law, M. and Hollinrake, N. (2014). The Walpole Landfill site. British Archaeology (138). Vol 138, pp. 28-33.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
The Walpole Landfill site | ||||||||||
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Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report |
wet, muddy & rewarding | ||||||||||
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
British Archaeology (138) | ||||||||||
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British Archaeology | ||||||||||
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138 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages The number of pages in the publication or report |
66 | ||||||||||
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28 - 33 | ||||||||||
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Since 2000, C&N Hollinrake Ltd have been carrying out archaeological investigations in advance of cell construction at the Walpole Landfill site, located between Bridgwater and Highbridge at Pawlett Level within the Somerset Levels. Each landfill cell is 600m long, 30m wide and 5m deep, allowing an unparalleled opportunity to look at the deep sequence of clays and peats laid down by the estuary over the last eight millennia, and the archaeological remains they preserve. This article sets the early environmental context before describing a series of excavated wooden Neolithic structures representing trackways and fords. Activity had later become focused on an area of dry land to the east, where open-area excavation recovered Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery and features. The latter included a network of ditches dug across the site in the Iron Age which had been recut and maintained into the Romano-British period. The excavations have produced a vast number of finds and sediment samples for environmental analysis. It is hoped that these will answer questions about the use and date of some of the more mysterious features, as well as how sea level and the local climate have changed through prehistory and into the historic period. LD | ||||||||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2014 | ||||||||||
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Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
26 Aug 2015 |
