Fulford, M. G., Allen, J. R L. and Rippon, S. J. (1994). The settlement and drainage of the Wentlooge level, Gwent: excavation and survey at Rumney Great Wharf 1992. Britannia 25. Vol 25, pp. 175-211.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
The settlement and drainage of the Wentlooge level, Gwent: excavation and survey at Rumney Great Wharf 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Britannia 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Britannia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume Volume number and part |
25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
175 - 211 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Biblio Note This is a Bibliographic record only. |
Please note that this is a bibliographic record only, as originally entered into the BIAB database. The ADS have no files for download, and unfortunately cannot advise further on where to access hard copy or digital versions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book |
Journal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
The mud cliff and high intertidal clay-peat shelf between the R Rhymney and Towick Reen was surveyed to relocate features recognised during earlier aerial and ground surveys, and identify any that had been exposed during subsequent coastal erosion. Fieldwork concentrated on features seen in the mud cliff around the headland of ditch B4, and the embayment to the north, site C. Features in the mud cliff sections were cleaned and a short length of each excavated, in order to obtain greater artefactual and palaeoenvironmental assemblages.Built ditches occur in sub-parallel groups, suggesting they were laid out in large blocks. A droveway cut into, or formed the boundary of, one block. A second block aligned with surviving drains. It is conjectured that the Wentlooge Level was laid out in the Roman period, being drained by extensive ditches and protected from inundation by the sea wall. Circa six of the forty-three ditches identified had become infilled by the time the sea defences were set back and are fully sealed by Wentlooge palaeosol. Twenty of the identified ditches are infilled with pale brown Rhymney formation sediments, indicating activity during the repositioning of the sea-walls. Natural palaeochannels are also in evidence.The material remains are then reported, beginning with Romano-British pottery, which was recovered from all features exposed in the mud cliff. Fired clay was recovered from almost all the artificial features in sites B and C. A bronze finger-ring of third-fourth century date, a fragment of iron knife blade, similar nail shaft and third unidentified iron fragment, a small chisel-cut fragment of cast lead sheet, two glass beads and a fragment of window glass were also found. The `Textile' is documented by J P Wild (196), iron-making slag from the beach area between sites B and C is noted, and a `Flint arrowhead' described by S H R Aldhouse-Green (196). Details of unworked stone are followed by `The animal bone' by S Hamilton-Dyer (197-200), and `The pollen' by M Keith-Lucas (201-2). `Plant macrofossils' by M Robinson (202-5) and `Charcoal and wood' by Rowena Gale (205-6) complete the specialist reports.In conclusion, plant and animal bone evidence combine to provide a picture of an economy including animal husbandry, the raising of horses, wetland reclamation and probable cereal cultivation. Iron-making was also evinced, though there is little indication of wealth. Earlier occupation evidence in the form of the Neolithic arrowhead, and early-mid IA palaeochannel filling is noted. The case for RB initiation of Wentlooge wetland reclamation is thus thought to be strengthened. IH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in. |
BIAB
(The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
20 Jan 2002 |
