Prehistoric landscape to Roman villa:

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Title:	Prehistoric landscape to Roman villa:
Subtitle:	excavations at Beddington, Surrey, 1981--7
Series:	MoLAS Monograph
Volume:	26
Number of Pages:	152
Publication Type:	Monograph Chapter (in Series)
Abstract:	Excavations at Beddington in 1981--7 uncovered extensive archaeological remains. The earliest features identified were a co-axial arrangement of three ditches dated to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, which is part of a wider landscape of fields. Interpretation of the material assemblage indicates that there was occupation on the site at this time, but thereafter it appears to have been unoccupied until the third century BC, when a Late Iron Age enclosed settlement developed which appeared to have had associations with west Kent and to be involved in the production and working of textiles. The settlement appears to have been replaced by fields in the first and second centuries AD, but finds suggest that occupation near the site continued, and that there were villa-type buildings in the vicinity at this time; several burials may have been associated with these. Buildings forming part of a definite villa complex were established at the site in the late-second century AD and included a villa house, bathhouse and five other buildings, two of which were barns, although there was no direct evidence of crop or livestock production. In the late-third century AD the villa house was renovated, with the addition of two wings, one of which incorporated a channelled hypocaust. The bathhouse was modified and the barns were replaced by a substantial aisled structure which used post-pads to support load-bearing timber posts. The fields seem to have become obsolete at this time. Unlike many other villa sites there is no evidence for continued occupation in the post-Roman to Early Saxon period, despite the proximity of an Early Saxon cemetery to the south. The buildings appear to have been systematically demolished in the early-fifth century AD and the site left unoccupied until the present. Includes French and German summaries; separately authored reports include
Editor:	Susan M Hirst Susan M Wright
Issue Editor:	Isca J Howell
Publisher:	MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Year of Publication:	2005
ISBN:	1-901992-56-X
Source:	BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
Created Date:	21 Sep 2006

Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Overview of accessioned Roman finds	Angela Wardle	54 - 57
The building stone	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	57 - 58
The stone objects	Sally Peake Martin Owen David Moore David W Williams	58 - 60
The worked flint	Clive Orton Katherine Armitage	60 - 61
The daub	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	61
The tiles	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	61 - 63
Roller-stamped tile	Ernest W Black	62 - 63
Chimney pot	C Green	63
The fired-clay objects	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	63 - 66
The prehistoric pottery	Isobel Thompson Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	66 - 72
The prehistoric pottery: the pottery fabrics	Helen Rees	66 - 68
The Roman pottery	Helen Rees Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	72 - 79
The Roman pottery: a stamped mortarium	Katharine F Hartley	76
The Roman pottery; the samian ware	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins Geoffrey Marsh Joanna Bird	76 - 77
The Roman pottery: the amphorae	David Williams	76
The Roman pottery: a cremation urn	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	76
The Roman pottery: catalogue of samian potters' stamps	Brenda Dickinson	77 - 79
The post-Roman pottery	Clive Orton	79
The mortar	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	79 - 80
Analysis of the mortar	John G Evans Melvyn Card	80
The painted plaster	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	80 - 82
Analysis of the painted plaster	Paul Wilthew	81 - 82
The glass	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins Clive Orton Wendy Evans	82 - 83
The iron objects	Ralph Jackson Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	83 - 87
The Bronze Age metalwork	Stuart P Needham	87 - 88
The Iron Age brooches	Andrew C Skelton	88 - 89
The Roman brooches	Andrew C Skelton	89 - 93
Other copper-alloy objects	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	93 - 96
The lead objects	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	96 - 97
The Late Iron Age coins	John Kent	97
The Roman coins	Kurt Hunter-Mann	98 - 99
The wood remains	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	99 - 101
The plant remains	Dominique De Moulins	101 - 113
The animal bones	Alan Pipe Alison Locker	113 - 116
The worked bone and antler objects	Stephen Greep Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	116 - 118
The leather	Lesley Adkins Roy A Adkins	119 - 122
The mollusc shells	Lesley Howes	122 - 123
The human bones	Alison Locker Janet D Henderson	123

Hirst, S. M. and Wright, S. M., eds. (2005). Prehistoric landscape to Roman villa:. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology).

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