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A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire: Volume 1 - The Raunds Area Project (Paperback)
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A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire: Volume 1 - The Raunds Area Project (Paperback)
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The Raunds Area Project investigated more than 20 Neolithic and
Bronze Age monuments in the Nene Valley. From c 5000 BC to the
early 1st millennium cal BC a succession of ritual mounds and
burial mounds were built as settlement along the valley sides
increased and woodland was cleared. Starting as a regular
stopping-place for flint knapping and domestic tasks, first the
Long Mound, and then Long Barrow, the north part of the Turf Mound
and the Avenue were built in the 5th millennium BC. With the
addition of the Long Enclosure, the Causewayed Ring Ditch, and the
Southern Enclosure, there was a chain of five or six diverse
monuments stretched along the river bank by c 3000 cal BC. Later, a
timber platform, the Riverside Structure, was built and the focus
of ceremonial activity shifted to the Cotton `Henge', two
concentric ditches on the occupied valley side. From c 2200 cal BC
monument building accelerated and included the Segmented Ditch
Circle and at least 20 round barrows, almost all containing
burials, at first inhumations, then cremations down to c 1000 cal
BC, by which time two overlapping systems of paddocks and droveways
had been laid out. Finally, the terrace began to be settled when
these had gone out of use, in the early 1st millennium cal BC.
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