Title: |
A Late Iron Age farmstead and Romano-British site at Haddon, Peterborough |
Series: |
British Archaeological Reports
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Volume: |
358
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Number of Pages: |
186 |
Publication Type: |
Monograph Chapter (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Excavations during 1999 revealed the remains of a small farmstead first investigated in 1989. The site was established some time prior to 20 AD, during the Late Iron Age, and consisted of a single dwelling and associated structures set within a pair of sub-rectangular ditched enclosures. For a brief period following the Roman invasion pottery was produced on the site. The excavation revealed a kiln which produced a complete and well preserved set of `furniture' from the kiln's internal structure and a number of near-complete pottery vessels. Abandonment during the latter half of the first century AD was marked by the deliberate burial of a range of selected objects. The burial of the kiln furniture also appears to have been a contemporary act and possibly a symbolic statement. The single cremation recovered is probably datable to this period. Towards the end of the first century AD the site was re-organised, possibly to permit animal husbandry. At least two aisled barns were incorporated into newly laid out field systems, as were two water cisterns. Further re-ordering of the field systems in the mid-third to mid-fourth centuries AD was associated with the re-establishment of human occupation including the construction of a house, an adjacent malting oven constructed over a small votive pit, and pits containing burnt crop processing waste. The site was probably abandoned between 360 and 370 AD. Specialist reports include |
Author: |
Mark Hinman
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Editor: |
Mark Hinman
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Issue Editor: |
Erica Hedges
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Publisher: |
John and Erica Hedges Ltd
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Year of Publication: |
2003
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ISBN: |
1 84171 347 3 |
Note: |
Editorial Expansion:
Cambridgeshire County Council Archaeological Field Unit Monograph Number Two
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Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date: |
30 Nov 2005 |