Lambrick, G. (2013). Prehistoric Oxford (The Tom Hassall Lecture for 2012). Oxoniensia. Vol 78, pp. 1-48.
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Prehistoric Oxford (The Tom Hassall Lecture for 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Oxoniensia | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Oxoniensia | ||||||||||||||||||||
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78 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1 - 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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There is growing though still limited evidence of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter gatherers in the Oxford area. During the Neolithic and early Bronze Age a major ceremonial and funerary complex developed at the confluence of the Thames and the Cherwell. It included an early Neolithic square enclosure, a major Beaker period henge monument and a Bronze-Age linear barrow cemetery aligned on the Neolithic enclosure. Communities probably practised mobile pastoralism until later prehistory when more permanent farms were established in a pattern of settlement that respected the pre-existing ceremonial complex. A possible hillfort at Wytham and a major Iron-Age midden and later temple complex at Woodeaton lie outside Oxford, but there is growing evidence of late-prehistoric activity on other hills within and west of the city as well as on the valley floor. At Port Meadow, middle Iron-Age settlements survive as earthworks set within the living legacy of the grazed grassland in which they were established. This part of the Thames valley was politically pivotal in the later Iron Age, but unlike the oppida and subsequent Roman towns at Dorchester and Abingdon, Oxford remained a relative backwater. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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02 Jul 2014 |
