Darvill, T. C. (1997). Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man, 1996.

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Title:		 Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man, 1996
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Series:		 Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences Research Reports
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Volume:		 3
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Number of Pages:		 77
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Publication Type:		 Monograph (in Series)
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Abstract:		 This report, covering the Billown Projects's second season, begins with discussion of soil and geochemical surveys of the Billown Quarry site, including: `Geomorphology' by Vincent May (5); `The Pleistocene stratigraphy: preliminary observations' by John Naylor & Sarah Sherlock (6 & 8--11); `Areal variations in soil chemistry' by Rob Haslam & Tamsin Goldring (11--16); `High resolution geophysical surveys' by Bronwen Laughlin (18--19); and `Magnetic susceptibility over anomaly "e"' by Rob Haslam & Tamsin Goldring (19--20). `Excavations at the Billown Quarry site 1996', by Timothy Darvill, Miles Russell & Jane Timby (21--30), describes the recorded features, including a possible crematorium pit and a `mini-henge'. Notes on selected finds cover: prehistoric flintwork; Early and Middle Neolithic pottery; `Ronaldsway pottery' by Stephen Burrow & Damian Evans (31--4); `Conservation of the Ronaldsway jars' by Damian Evans & Rowena Hill (34--5); `Environmental sampling' by Keith Wilkinson (35--6); and `Charcoals' by Graeme Dumas (37). Landscape surveys are reported in: `Geophysical survey of the Skibrick Hill enclosure' by Bronwen Laughlin (40--1); `Chemical analysis of soils on Skibrick Hill' by Kirsty Lannigan (41 & 44); `Fieldwalking in Land Parcel 7791' by Andrew Johnson & Melanie Pomeroy (44 & 46--7); `Geophysical survey in Land Parcel 7791' by Bronwen Laughlin (47); `GPS survey of South Barrule' by Andrew Fulton (47--52); `The Mull Hill tomb' by John Gale, Jeff Chartrand, Andrew Fulton, Bronwen Laughlin & Timothy Darvill (52, 54--5, 57 & 60). `The excavation and raising of the Ballahot 2 standing stone' by Jeff Spenser (61--3). Appendix A comprises `Notes on the interpretation and affinities of enclosure F318/F323' by Miles Russell (68--70).
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Author:		 Timothy C Darvill ORCID icon
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Year of Publication:		 1997
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Location - Auto Detected: Skibrick Hill
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Pleistocene (Auto Detected Temporal)
PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
MIDDLE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
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Note:		 Date Of Issue From: 1997
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Created Date:		 10 Apr 2002