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Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist 131
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Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist 131
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Somerset Archaeology and Natural History
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131
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Journal
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1987
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Date Of Issue From: 1987
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BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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05 Dec 2008
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Coastal change since 6000 BP and the presence of man at Kenn Moor, Avon
Simon Butler
1 - 11
Nine boreholes revealed a mix of freshwater and marine organisms. Saltmarsh and mudflat was established by c 4000 bp, with marshland peats developing about 500 years later. Human interference with surrounding woodland may date from the Neolithic.
Somerset barrows: revisions 1971-87
Leslie V Grinsell
13 - 26
Newly recognized sites include seventeen on Exmoor, eleven on Mendip. Social ranking in EBA is evident from barrow arrangement and contents; also discussed briefly are structural features, later use of barrows as boundary points, folklore and the like.
Later prehistoric pottery from Ham Hill
Elaine L Morris
27 - 47
Detailed examination and recording of c 3000 sherds revealed changing use of local and non-local pottery from at least 7th century BC through to the Roman period. Twenty-six thin sections were examined. Durotrigian wares, present in quantity, have not yet been treated. Comparisons are made with pottery from S Cadbury, Eldon's Seat, etc.
A gazetteer of the Anglo-Saxon sculpture in historic Somerset
Sally M Foster
49 - 80
Lists forty-three definite and forteen possible AS pieces, about 25% of them from Glastonbury and Keynsham abbeys, but only at Milborne Port still in situ. The majority are crosses, grave-covers, and decorated slabs but there are also two figural sculptures, three fonts, and one sun-/scratch-dial. F B
Keynsham Abbey: excavations 1961-1985
Barbara J Lowe
et 5 alii
81 - 156
Ten fragments of AS sculpture and two bronzes support the thesis that there was a minster here. The abbey was founded c 1167. Dimensions of the large and magnificently furnished cruciform Romanesque church can be estimated and a date before 1190 is indicated. Additions of 13th and 14th centuries are described. A reverberatory furnace in the chapter house appears to have been used for bell-casting somewherebetween 1539 and 1776. Catalogues of window glass, carved stone, bronzes, ironwork, coins. F B/Ed
The chapel of St Columbanus at Cheddar
Philip A Rahtz
Susan M Hirst
157 - 161
Excavations on the site were published earlier (see 80/6862): plans and elevations of the conserved ruin of the 10th to 14th century royal chapel are presented here.
Post-medieval pottery and clay pipes from Cheddar
Kenneth J Barton
A Oswald
163 - 170
From the excavations of the palace site, 16th-18th century wares including much mid/late 17th century local sgraffito, an ?early/mid 18th century cesspit group, and numerous clay pipes mainly of the second half of the 17th century. F B
Somerset archaeology 1987 sites and finds
203 - 231
A hoard of two palstaves from Nyland, Cheddar Taunton phase
Stephen C Minnitt
233 - 234
Vernacular architecture notes 1987
237 - 258
Brief records of some sixty medieval and post-medieval houses. F B