Hey, G. (1998). The Yarnton--Cassington Project. Lithics 19. Vol 19, pp. 47-60.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
The Yarnton--Cassington Project | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report |
evaluating a floodplain landscape | ||||||||||||||||||
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Lithics 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Lithics | ||||||||||||||||||
Volume Volume number and part |
19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Number of Pages The number of pages in the publication or report |
106 | ||||||||||||||||||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
47 - 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Yarnton--Cassington project, initiated because of gravel extraction, is located in an area eight kilometres north of Oxford, on the edge of a gravel terrace overlooking the northern floodplain of the river Thames. Rescue excavation began in 1989-90 within an area of dense Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement features. A fieldwalking programme across 182 hectares, within and beyond the extraction area, aimed primarily to assess the extent of the arable fields of the Roman settlement, so the recovery of Neolithic and Bronze Age lithic scatters during the exercise came as a surprise. Evaluation and excavation over the last seven years has investigated these scatters further, and some provisional answers to questions addressed by the project are beginning to emerge. The Yarnton flints found their way to the surface mainly because sites were ploughed, not in the recent past, but in the Roman period. Subsequent alluvial deposition covered Roman fields and protected the early sites; deeper ploughing in the latter part of the 20th century has brought flints from the Roman ploughsoils up to the present surface. Although the flint scatters did indicate that sites lay beneath, there was no precise correlation between the location of the scatters and the densest concentration of features. This may suggest either that flint was deliberately removed from settlement sites, or that flint production and, possibly, selected use took place in off-site locations. LD | ||||||||||||||||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1998 | ||||||||||||||||||
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
(biab_online)
|
||||||||||||||||||
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
01 Sep 2014 |
