Brown, A. Douglas. (2006). Environment and Human Activity on the Oldbury Levels, c. 5000-1000BC, Recent Work at Hills Flat, Souther Gloucestershire. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 17. Vol 17.
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Environment and Human Activity on the Oldbury Levels, c. 5000-1000BC, Recent Work at Hills Flat, Souther Gloucestershire | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 17 | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | ||
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This paper presents the results of pollen, charcoal, macrobotanical and sedimentological analysis at the intertidal site of Hills Flats, south Gloucestershire. Here a sequence of interbedded peats and estuarine silts of mid-Holocene date are exposed along a c. 1.5 km stretch of the intertidal zone, from the surface of which a small collection of unstratified lithics of Neolithic and early Bronze Age date have previously been reported. Analysis suggests an environment of saltmarsh, punctuated by periods of peat formation characterised by reedswamp, fringed by carrwoodland, with Quercus-Ulmus-Tilia-Corylus woodland on the adjacent dry ground. Significant quantities of charcoal were recorded from the base of the upper peat, representing probable anthropogenic burning of reedswamp and sedgefen of late Mesolithic and early Neolithic date. The archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence may indicate a special activity site, peripheral to, and perhaps associated with evidence for extensive settlement activity recorded from the intertidal zone 3 km to the south at Oldbury Flats. The results of analysis from Hills Flats are set within the context of previous palaeoenvironmental and archaeological work on the Oldbury Levels, suggesting sustained occupation and exploitation of the intertidal marshes during prehistory. | ||
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09 Oct 2017 |
