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Archaeological strip, map amd sample excavation at Brannel School, St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall |
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Exeter Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
A strip, map and sample excavation was carried out between January and March 2010 at Brannel School, St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. A number of ditches were exposed, representing boundaries of successive field systems dating from at least the early Iron Age if not earlier. Pottery evidence was consistent with some activity in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, with most of the field system ditches belonging to the Middle Iron Age. No conclusive settlement evidence in the form, for example, of roundhouses was observed although settlement associated with the field systems must presumably have lain in reasonably close proximity. 90 sherds of Beaker pottery representing three vessels (at least two of which had cordoned rims) were recovered from a pit. This material forms one of the earliest assemblages yet known from Cornwall. The later prehistoric pottery is predominantly of Middle Iron Age date. |
Author: |
Phil M Jones
John P Salvatore
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Exeter Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2011
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brannel school |
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ST STEPHEN IN BRANNEL |
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Cornwall |
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Cornwall |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 194290, 52800 (Easting, Northing)
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24 Nov 2016 |