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Westbury Sleight. A Bronze Age cairn and field system on Mendip? |
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Westbury Society unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Early in 2007 fieldwork and a geophysical survey were undertaken by members of the Westbury Society at the site of an Ordnance Survey recorded earthwork enclosure on the Mendip scarp. At the same time English Heritage completed a fresh earthwork survey. The enclosure is most likely to be a much damaged platform cairn of Bronze Age date. Nearby linear banks may be part of a farming landscape of the late Bronze Age. It is further suggested that these banks and many of the present field boundaries along the southern Mendip slopes may be successors to a co-axial field system of late prehistoric date |
Author: |
B Lane
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Publisher: |
Westbury Society
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Somerset HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2007
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Sleight |
Parish: |
WESTBURY |
District: |
Mendip |
County: |
Somerset |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 351340, 149760 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
westbury2-42940 |
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Note: |
21 page A4 pages with black and white and colour illustrations
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Created Date: |
23 Nov 2016 |