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Oxford J Archaeol 26 (2)
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Oxford J Archaeol 26 (2)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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26 (2)
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Journal
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Barry Cunliffe
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
Chris Gosden
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Blackwell Publishing
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Year of Publication:
2007
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/26/2
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01 Jun 2007
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Using and abandoning roundhouses: a reinterpretation of the evidence from Late Bronz...
Leo Webley
127 - 144
It has recently been demonstrated that a number of roundhouses of the early-first millennium BC in southern England show a concentration of finds in the southern half of the building. It has thus been argued that this area was used for domestic activities such as food preparation, an idea which has formed the basis for discussion of later prehistoric `cosmologies'. However, it is argued that reconsideration of the evidence suggests that this finds patterning does not relate to the everyday use of the buildings, being more likely to derive from a particular set of house abandonment practices. Furthermore, evidence can be identified for the location of domestic activities within contemporary roundhouses that appears to contradict the established model.
Burnt Kimmeridgian shale at early Roman Silchester, south-east England, and the Roman Poole--Purbeck complex-agglomerated geomaterials industry
John R L Allen
Michael G Fulford
J A Todd
167 - 191
A wide range of geomaterials were worked at industrial settlements scattered over an area of c.225 km2 in the Poole Harbour--Isle of Purbeck district of modern Dorset. These materials included shale (`coal'), burnt shales (yellow, red) and cementstones from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic), Purbeck marble from the Purbeck Group (earliest Cretaceous), hard chalk from the Chalk Group (Upper Cretaceous), and potting clays and sands from the Bracklesham Group (Palaeogene), for South-east Dorset Black-burnished Pottery Category 1. There was also a salt industry, which could have used pottery for packaging. The industrial products are conterminously distributed in southern and central Britain and, in the case of pottery and shale items, reached as far as the northern frontiers. Raw material of red burnt shale was exported to Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), where it was made into mosaic tesserae. Of proven Kimmeridgian age on the evidence of fossils, the mudstone used to make it had been collected and quarried on the coast of the Isle of Purbeck before being burnt. The decline in the demand for stone products, excepting shale, in the second century AD saw an expansion of the potting industry, which persisted into the fifth century. The term complex-agglomerative is introduced to describe this diverse and dispersed enterprise at this highest hierarchical level, examples of which occur elsewhere in the Roman world.