Hollinrake, C. and Hollinrake, N. (2006). Neolithic Structure and Aurochs Bones at Walpole Landfill Site, Somerset, Archaeological Works in 2005-6 Interim results from Cells B, C, and D. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 17. Vol 17.
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Neolithic Structure and Aurochs Bones at Walpole Landfill Site, Somerset, Archaeological Works in 2005-6 Interim results from Cells B, C, and D | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 17 | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | ||
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An archaeological watching brief undertaken during waste cell excavations within a thick sequence of Holocene estuarine clays, has recorded several early-Neolithic accumulations of wood, including the remains of structural trackways and lines of vertical stakes, both within and crossing palaeochannels. Dispersed bones from an aurochs were also found scattered along one of the channels. Radiocarbon dates from structures recorded in 2005 and from aurochsbone provide calibrated dates between c. 4000 BC and 3000 BC. Lias bedrock, the lower, western slopes of a large, buried island or outcrop of the formation, was recorded along the east side of the excavation area in 2005, and a number of bog oak fragments were recorded in that area. In 2006, a trial, exploratory excavation was undertaken at the western end of the swface of the buried Lias island. A drainage or boundary ditch was recorded. Finds from within and below a buriedsoil layer that lies above the natural Lias clay and stone forming the island or outcrop, and that is sealed, in turn, below the overlying, alluvial clays that accumulated from the later-Roman period onwards, included prehistoric flint flakes, animal bone fragments and occasional pottery sherds ranging in date from the late Bronze Age through to the Roman period. Small palaeochannels were recorded cutting through the buried soil and the surface geology and were also recorded within the overlying, post-Roman, alluvial clay | ||
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09 Oct 2017 |
