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'A Mersshy Contree Called Holdernesse': Excavations on the Route of a National Grid Pipeline in Holderness, East Yorkshire - Rural Life in the Claylands to the East of the Yorkshire Wolds, from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age and Roman Periods, and beyond (Paperback)
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'A Mersshy Contree Called Holdernesse': Excavations on the Route of a National Grid Pipeline in Holderness, East Yorkshire - Rural Life in the Claylands to the East of the Yorkshire Wolds, from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age and Roman Periods, and beyond (Paperback)
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Twenty sites were excavated on the route of a National Grid
pipeline across Holderness, East Yorkshire. These included an early
Mesolithic flint-working area, near Sproatley. In situ deposits of
this age are rare, and the site is a significant addition to
understanding of the post-glacial development of the wider region.
Later phases of this site included possible Bronze Age round
barrows and an Iron Age square barrow. Elsewhere on the pipeline
route, diagnostic Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age flints, as
well as Bronze Age pottery, provide evidence of activity in these
periods. Iron Age remains were found at all of the excavation
sites, fourteen of which had ring gullies, interpreted as evidence
for roundhouse structures. The frequency with which these
settlements occurred is an indication of the density of population
in the later Iron Age and the large assemblage of hand-made pottery
provides a rich resource for future study. Activity at several of
these sites persisted at least into the second or early third
centuries AD, while the largest excavation site, at Burton
Constable, was re-occupied in the later third century. However, the
pottery from the ring gullies was all hand-made, suggesting that
roundhouses had ceased to be used by the later first century AD,
when the earliest wheel-thrown wares appear. This has implications
for understanding of the Iron Age to Roman transition in the
region. Late first- or early second-century artefacts from a site
at Scorborough Hill, near Weeton, are of particular interest, their
nature strongly suggesting an association with the Roman military.
With contributions by: Hugo Anderson-Whymark (flint), Kevin Leahy
(metal, glass, worked bone), Terry Manby (earlier prehistoric
pottery), Chris Cumberpatch (hand-made pottery), Rob Ixer
(petrography), Derek Pitman and Roger Doonan (suface residues:
ceramics and slag), Ruth Leary (Roman pottery), Felicity Wild
(samian ware), Kay Hartley (mortaria), Jane Young with Peter
Didsbury (post-Roman pottery), Ruth Shaffrey (worked stone), Lisa
Wastling (fired clay), Jennifer Jones (surface residues: fired
clay), Katie Keefe and Malin Holst (human bone), Jennifer Wood
(animal bone), Don O'Meara (plant macrofossils), Tudur Burke Davies
(pollen) and Matt Law (molluscs). Illustrations by: Jacqueline
Churchill, Dave Watt and Susan Freebrey
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