Dean Archaeol 12

Includes a cast iron eel-spear head (no date given).

A deer leap is identified in Awre, using documentary sources, place-name evidence and new field observations.

Describes attempts to replicate Palaeolithic painting techniques, using pigments now being mined at Clearwell Caves, near Coleford.

Notes on the identification, properties and provenance of two rocks that have been used for artefacts in the past -- bloodstone in the Mesolithic and pitchstone in Neolithic, Bronze Age and, possibly, the Mesolithic. This is one of a series of related articles inspired by the Dean Archaeology Group's quest to acquire a reference collection of rocks.

Notes on the identification, properties and provenance of the rock from which the Mesolithic stone implements known as `limpet picks' were made.

Notes on the identification, properties and provenance of one of the rocks from which Neolithic polished axes were made.

Reports on the progress of a `Coffee-time Archaeology Group' research project that has added considerably to the SMR record of these features. Includes a reconstruction drawing of the moated warren at Hanley Hill.