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Two reports are published in this volume: excavations in 2004 at
Henbury School, Bristol (by Derek Evans, Neil Holbrook and E.R.
McSloy) and excavations in 2005 at Hewlett Packard, Filton, South
Gloucestershire (by Kate Cullen, Neil Holbrook, Martin Watts, Anwen
Caffell and Malin Holst). Excavations in 2004 at Henbury School,
Bristol, revealed the truncated remains of 21 inhumation burials,
making a total of 28 burials recorded at the site since 1982. Of
these, 24 burials formed a dispersed cemetery of crouched
inhumations, the vast majority of which were aligned north/south
and lay on their left sides, with equal numbers of males and
females (where sex could be determined) and only one child. Poor
bone survival rendered radiocarbon dating invalid, and the cemetery
is dated by only one grave good: a finger ring from the mid to late
Iron Age. However, the cemetery clearly pre-dated a later
rectangular enclosure of very late Iron Age (early 1st-century AD)
date. Crouched inhumations from the later Iron Age are known from
the region but usually from pits or scattered, so the presence of
this cemetery at Henbury is significant. Inhumation cemeteries of
this date are rare in Western Britain, although they may have been
quite widespread. Despite the dearth of surviving features within
the subsequent enclosure, the scale of the ditches suggests it was
a farmstead, and environmental evidence hints at both livestock
rearing and cereal cultivation. Subsequent Roman activity was
clearly intensive, and included a further four burials; although
difficult to interpret, it adds to a substantial amount of evidence
for Roman activity to the north-west of Bristol. Excavations in
2005 at Hewlett Packard, Filton, revealed the truncated remains of
51 inhumation burials within an isolated post-Roman cemetery. All
of the burials were extended and east-west aligned, and were
arranged in rows and groups. The tradition of east/west-aligned
graves is a common late Roman and post-Roman practice, and these
were not necessarily Christian. The largest group comprised 24
burials clustered around a central grave that contained an unusual
skeleton and evidence for a distinctive burial rite. Overall there
were slightly more females than males (where sex could be
determined) and ten children. Adult stature could only be
calculated in a few cases; males were generally taller that the
early medieval average, females shorter. No grave goods were
recovered, but four radiocarbon dates obtained from human bone
suggest a period of use sometime between the 5th and 7th centuries
AD. There was no evidence for contemporary settlement within the
immediate vicinity. Other post-Roman cemeteries that are culturally
distinct from Anglo-Saxon influenced burials are known from the
region. The absence of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in South
Gloucestershire suggests this area remained under British control
in the 5th and 6th centuries. The abandonment of this cemetery may
have been the result of changes in the religious landscape once the
area finally came under Saxon control in the late 7th century.
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Imprint: |
Cotswold Archaeological Trust
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2006 |
First published: |
December 2006 |
Authors: |
Martin Watts
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Dimensions: |
244 x 170 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
96 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9553534-0-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
Environmental archaeology
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LSN: |
0-9553534-0-8 |
Barcode: |
9780955353406 |
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