skip to navigation
ADS Main Website
Help
|
Login
/
Browse by Series
/
Series
/ Journal Issue
Trans Proc Birmingham Archaeol Soc 83
Title
The title of the publication or report
Title:
Trans Proc Birmingham Archaeol Soc 83
Series
The series the publication or report is included in
Series:
Transactions and Proceedings of the Birmingham Archaeological Society
Volume
Volume number and part
Volume:
83
Publication Type
The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book
Publication Type:
Journal
Year of Publication
The year the book, article or report was published
Year of Publication:
No Date
Source
Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in.
Source:
BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
Created Date
The date the record of the pubication was first entered
Created Date:
05 Dec 2008
Please click on an Article link to go to the Article Details.
Article Title
Access Type
Author / Editor
Page
Start/End
Abstract
Excavations for the Avon/Severn Research Committee at Barford, Warwickshire
1 - 66
SP 289624. Site 83, one of the hundreds of occupation sites revealed by aerial survey of the West Midlands, contained a henge, a Neolithic habitation site, a ring ditch, rectangular EIA enclosures and (unexcavated) a cursus and pit alignment. The henge, closely paralleled at Dorchester (Oxfordshire) showed three phases, the ?middle one giving a 14C date of c 2400 BC. Storage pits of two types contained ?Neolithic material, and a habitation site yielded a rectangular structure of two main phases and Peterborough pottery of c 2000 BC. An ?EBA complex ring-ditch structure was approached by a ritual or functional avenue. Several large pits appeared to be for water-storage in Neolithic times. A bronze chisel of LBA type, c 700 BC, found stratified above EIA pottery in a pit, raises the possibility of a very early Iron Age date for this feature. Part of a Romano-British field system was also investigated.
A Neronian-Vespasianic military site at 'The Lunt', Baginton, Warwickshire
Brian Hobley
65 - 129
Neronian-Vespasianic military site at "The Lunt", Baginton, Warwickshire
Brian Hobley
67 - 129
SP 344752. The fort is well sited for military purposes and lies on gravel overlooking an area of heavy soils. Occupation dates suggested by pottery and coins are c 60-79, and as this is too late for the central section of the Fosse Way frontier, the site was either a rearward works depot/stores or (perhaps more likely) a result of the Boudiccan rebellion. Timber buildings of the first phase were cut c 64 by the later defensive system, whose sinuous eastern rampart may be due to the terrain. Other unusual features are the slight inturn of the E gateway and non-standard internal planning. At the end of occupation in c 79 the fort was dismantled and levelled. A little post-Hadrianic occupation is evidenced. Many metal objects have been recovered including military bronzes.
Tripontium: first interim report on excavations by the Rugby Archaeological Society at Cave's Inn, near Rugby Warwickshire
H Cameron
J Lucas
130 - 179
SP 535795. Work continues in advance of gravel digging on this site where skeletons, urns and coins have been turning up since 1930. It is now recognised as a timber-built settlement of 1st to 4th centuries which extends for at least 685 yards along Watling Street. Of unknown relation to this settlement is a ditch, dug and refilled in late 4th century, which encloses the road and its borders. Half a mile away a find of a military saucepan may indicate a fort site, but the present settlement - rubbish pits, cobbled surfaces, ditches, hearths and a few postholes - is entirely civilian in character. At least thirty burials, probably coffined, could not be properly investigated, but one was of an adolescent girl who had been hanged and dismembered. Several stone-lined wells, all minus their upper portions, yielded wood, leather and other remains, plus fragments of a milestone of Constantine (301-37). Pottery (16 pp of illustrations), mortaria and samian stamps and a lead pig are among the finds catalogued.
Tripontium: first interim report on excavations by the Rugby Archaeological Society at Caves Inn, near Rugby
H Cameron
J Lucas
130 - 179
The Roman road between Gloucester and Birmingham, north of the Lickey Hills
R J Hetherington
D B Whitehouse
180 - 187