| Title: |
Excavations at a Neolithic enclosure at Lower Luggy, near Welshpool, Powys, Wales
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| Issue: |
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 72 |
| Series: |
The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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| Volume: |
72
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| Page Start/End: |
163 - 191 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
Excavation at a cropmark enclosure in the Upper Severn Valley was undertaken to try to obtain material from which to provide relative and absolute dating for the site. Lying within an area rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology and in close proximity to a proven long barrow, the conventional later prehistoric date postulated for the enclosure was questioned. Excavation proved the site to have been a ditched enclosure with internal bank and a possible gate structure. Post-pits ran inside the bank. Finds were few but radiocarbon dates from the floor of the ditch proved the Early Neolithic credentials of the monument which seemed to have continued in use for at least some 500 years. French, German and Spanish summaries provided. Separately authored contributions include |
| Year of Publication: |
2006
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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| Gate Structure Postpits (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Ditched Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject) |
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DITCH
(Monument Type England)
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| Bank (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Long Barrow (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Cropmark Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Note: |
[OS SJ 201 019]
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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| Created Date: |
30 Jan 2007 |
