Chapman, P., Chapman, A., Mason, P. and Taylor, E. (2014). A Bronze Age pit, a late Iron Age enclosure and a Roman droveway and enclosures at Magna Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, November 2006 to June 2007. Northampton: MOLA Northampton. https://doi.org/10.5284/1034855. Cite this using datacite

Title The title of the publication or report Title:	A Bronze Age pit, a late Iron Age enclosure and a Roman droveway and enclosures at Magna Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, November 2006 to June 2007
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DOI The DOI (digital object identifier) for the publication or report. DOI	https://doi.org/10.5284/1034855
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report Abstract:	.Two areas were subject to open area excavation in 2006-07. An isolated middle Bronze Age pit containing a set of cylindrical loomweights lay to the north-east, within Site 2. At Site 1, a scatter of gullies and pits date to the middle/late Iron Age. A square enclosure, with a deep ditch, was created in the late Iron Age (1st century BC) and remained in use to the md-1st century AD. There may have been a sequence of entrance structures in the south-east corner and an outer ditch system, perhaps to hold a timber palisade, enclosed the western half of the enclosure. Internal features included a stock pen and a drainage gully adjacent to the ditch on the lowest side, but no evidence survived to indicate the location of a roundhouse. The enclosure produced a substantial assemblage of late Iron Age pottery, including wheel-finished vessels spanning the transition to the early Roman period, when activity was limited to a scatter of pits lying immediately outside the enclosure, some containing kiln furniture. The site was probably abandoned at around 70AD. At Site 2, a curving boundary ditch is dated to the early Roman period (mid 1st to early 2nd centuries AD), although an origin in the late Iron Age may be suspected. By the early 2nd century AD, there was a new system of boundaries, comprising a droveway running into possible stock control paddocks. An adjacent domestic enclosure, containing at least two roundhouses, formed a low status native farmstead, probably dominated by pastoral farming. A new enclosure, containing a rectangular timber building, was constructed in the early 3rd century, and the droveway was made narrower. The enclosures had been abandoned by the end of the 3rd century AD.
Author The authors of this publication or report Author:	P Chapman A Chapman P Mason Edmund Taylor
Publisher The publisher of the publication or report Publisher:	MOLA Northampton
Other Person/Org Other people or organisations for this publication or report Other Person/Org:	Historic England (OASIS Reviewer) Milton Keynes SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published Year of Publication:	2014
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. Locations:	Site: Magna Park County: Buckinghamshire District: Milton Keynes Parish: WAVENDON Country: England Grid Reference: 491400, 238600 (Easting, Northing) Grid Reference: 491030, 238390 (Easting, Northing)
Subjects / Periods Subjects / Periods associated with this record. Subjects / Periods:	MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) PLAIN AND DECORATED LOOMWEIGHTS, FRAGMENT BRONZE DAGGER (Find) LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) ROMAN (Historic England Periods) BROOCH (Object England) MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England) LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SQUARE ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England) ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SETTLEMENT (Monument Type England) EXCAVATION (Event)
Identifiers Identifiers associated with the publication. These might include DOIs, site codes, Monument Identifiers etc. Identifiers:	OASIS Id: molanort1-177808 OBIB: 14/92
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Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered Created Date:	01 Feb 2018

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