The Experimental Earthwork Project, 1960--1992

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Council for British Archaeology Research Reports

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100

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https://doi.org/10.5284/1081763

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Monograph (in Series)

Abstract:

Reports on, provides a synthesis of, and assesses the results from the first thirty-two years of the project, which was set up `to investigate by experiment the denudation and burial of archaeological structures' and is principally concerned with two earthworks, one on Overton Down, Wiltshire, and the other on Morden Bog, near Wareham, Dorset; both have been monitored since construction in 1960 and 1963 respectively, and excavated in sections cut through them at intervals on a progressive scale of years.. The report reviews the project's history over its first thirty-two years in the particular context of excavations at Overton in 1968, 1976 and 1992 and at Wareham in 1980. The report records the more detailed programme of analytical work which was implemented at Overton in 1992, concentrating on the preservation of biological and environmental evidence and on the analysis of a range of organic and inorganic materials buried in 1960. The results provide an opportunity to consider the strengths and weakness of experimental methodology in archaeology. Includes French and German summaries; contributions include

Editor:

Martin G Bell
Peter J Fowler
Simon Hillson

Publisher:

Council for British Archaeology

Year of Publication:

1996

ISBN:

1 872414 64 8

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Is Portmanteau:1Editorial Expansion:on behalf of the Experimental Earthworks Committee, British Association for the Advancement of Science

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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

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20 Apr 2005

	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Introduction	Peter J Fowler Gillian Swanton	1 - 7
Background, Overton	Peter J Fowler Gillian Swanton	8 - 12
The vegetation of the Overton site 1969--1992	J Hemsley	13 - 26
The 1968 Overton excavation (8th year)	Peter J Fowler	27 - 33
The 1976 Overton excavation (16th year)	Peter J Fowler	34 - 42
Introduction	Peter J Fowler Gillian Swanton	34 - 35
Geomorphology of the ditch infill	K Crabtree	39 - 42
Artefacts and buried materials, 1968 and 1976	Peter J Fowler Geoffrey W Dimbleby Susan Limbrey	43 - 65
Lycopodium spores 1968 and 1976	Geoffrey W Dimbleby	43 - 45
The buried materials 1976	Susan Limbrey	55 - 65
Overton Down 1992 excavations (32nd year)	Martin G Bell	66 - 89
Methodology: the contour survey	Hazel Riley	67 - 68
Placed objects: pottery discs	Martin G Bell N Evans	78 - 79
Buried materials in the chalk environment: bone	Simon Hillson	84 - 85
Buried materials in the turf environment: bone	Simon Hillson	88 - 89
Soils and sediments from the Overton 1992 section	Martin G Bell	90 - 126
Particle size analysis of the ditch sediments	K Crabtree	90 - 93
Characterization of ditch sediments	John Crowther	93 - 95
Soil micromorphology	Richard I Macphail Gill M Cruise	95 - 107
Soil chemistry	John Crowther	107 - 118
Magnetic susceptibility survey	A J Clark	118 - 121
Amino acid studies	John S Beavis George MacLeod	121 - 126
Biological evidence in the old land surface and ditch of the Overton 1992 section	Martin G Bell	127 - 146
Lycopodium spores	K Crabtree	127 - 129
Pollen analysis of the old land surface	K Crabtree	129 - 131
Microscopic charcoal	Jenny Moore	131 - 134
Seed flora studies of the buried soil, bank, ditch fills and modern soil pits	Wendy J Carruthers Vanessa Straker	134 - 138
Seed persistence and plant decomposition after soil burial for 32 years	G A F Hendry S R Band Kathleen Thompson	138 - 140
Land molluscs	Martin G Bell S C Johnson	140 - 142
Modern molluscs	Amanda Rouse	142 - 146
Buried materials from the Overton 1992 section	Martin G Bell	147 - 177
Field recovery and storage of the buried materials	Robert C Janaway	147 - 148
Moisture content and pH within the earthwork	Robert C Janaway P Maclean	148
Microbiological report	Joan Kelley Patricia E J Wiltshire	148 - 155
Micromorphological aspects of wood decay	Robert A Blanchette	155 - 160
Textiles	Robert C Janaway	160 - 168
The textiles and their fibres	Michael L Ryder	168 - 174
Infrared analysis of textile samples	Susan Hardman	174 - 176
Leather samples	Glynis Edwards	176 - 177
Studies of the buried bone from the Overton 1992 excavation	Martin G Bell	178 - 200
Surface modification of bone	Peter Andrews	178 - 185
A scanning electron microscope study of bone, cement, dentine and enamel	Simon Hillson Sandra Bond	185 - 195
Phosphate migration around buried bones	John Crowther	195 - 196
A note on work in progress on DNA content and other diagenetic aspects of Overton Down bone	Robert E M Hedges Martin Richards B C Sykes	196 - 199
Chemical structure of DNA in bone from Overton Down	Terence (Terry) A Brown Kerry O'Donoghue Keri A Brown	199 - 200
The earthwork on Morden Bog, Wareham, Dorset 1972 (10th year) -- 1990 (27th year)	Simon Hillson	201 - 224
Current vegetation and management of the site: the vegetation of the bank	J Hemsley	202 - 203
Current vegetation and management of the site: the vegetation of the ditch	J Hemsley	203
Current vegetation and management of the site: relationship with general heathland flora	J Hemsley	203 - 205
The development of the ditch section: geomorphology of the ditch	K Crabtree	206 - 208
The development of the bank; soil micromorphology	Richard I Macphail	214 - 216
Buried materials: wood billets	Jon G Hather	221 - 222
Experimental domestic octagonal earthworks	Peter J Reynolds	225 - 227
Discussion and conclusions	Martin G Bell	228 - 246

Bell, M. G., Fowler, P. J. and Hillson, S., eds. (1996). The Experimental Earthwork Project, 1960--1992. York: Council for British Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081763. Cite this via datacite

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