Appleton-Fox, N. (1992). Excavations at a Romano-British round: Reawla, Gwinear, Cornwall. Cornish Archaeol 31. Vol 31, pp. 69-123.
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Excavations at a Romano-British round: Reawla, Gwinear, Cornwall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cornish Archaeol 31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cornish Archaeology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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69 - 123 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Limited excavations in 1987 in advance of building work showed the site to be a Romano-British univallate enclosed settlement (or round) of the second to early-fourth centuries AD. A Phase I enclosure, probably early-second century AD (but possibly Iron Age) was replaced, probably during the second century, by a larger more strongly defended Phase II enclosure. Associated with the Phase I enclosure was a sub-circular ring gully, interpreted as a house site. In Phase II this was overlain by a well defined working area: three successive hearths formed the focus of three sub-phases of activity (probably second to third centuries), associated with pits, post-holes and lesser hearths. One of the functions was probably smithing: smithing slag, hearth bottoms and tuyère blocks came from this and the following phase. A lead ingot from the working area, with marks of pieces being cut off it, also gives the impression of a low-key farm workshop level of activity. Adjoining the working area and broadly contemporary with it were three probable houses, in each case a large shallow hollow only partly within the excavated area. House A was second century, houses B and C probably third century. In the late-third century and perhaps early-fourth century this part of the site was used for the dumping of rubbish both in the house hollows and over the working area. These midden areas produced most of the artefacts (pottery, stone objects, iron fragments, glass) and most of the environmental and technological samples. Dating for the site came from radiocarbon dates and the pottery evidence. The pottery was overwhelmingly local gabbroic wares with a small proportion from south east Dorset, south Devon and elsewhere. Iron objects though poorly preserved suggest the general use of iron implements. Stone objects included a bowl, a weight, a shale spindlewhorl, part of a rotary quern and pebbles showing signs of use, perhaps for food processing, leather and cloth finishing. Fossil pollen did not survive but charred plant remains gave an impression of the crops available -- barley and wheat -- and provide an indication of the contemporary environment and land use. Although appearing to be basically a farming settlement, with evidence of crop production and basic smithing activity, the site is thought, because of drastic change in the size of the enclosure and the scale of the defence, and because of aspects of the pottery evidence, to be of relatively high status. There are details of geophysical, geochemical and auger surveys, along with specialist reports on: the `Charred plant macrofossils' by Vanessa Straker (89--92); `Radiocarbon dating' (92--4), `The pottery' (94--106) and the `Stone objects' (106--13), all by Henrietta Quinnell; `The glass' by Lesley & Roy Adkins (113--14) and `Slag and other technological finds' by Justine Bayley (114--16). Finally there are three appendices: `Appendix 1 charred plant macrofossils: contexts' (119); `Appendix 2 ironwork: contexts' (120); and `Appendix 3 technological samples: contexts' (120). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 Jan 2002 |
