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The site at Whitecross Farm, including timber structures located on
the edge of the eyot, and a substantial midden and occupation
deposit has been securely radiocarbon-dated to the late Bronze Age.
The late Bronze Age artefact assemblages are suggestive of a
high-status site, with a range of domestic and ritual activities
represented. The bank of the Grim's Ditch earthwork was found to
have preserved evidence of earlier settlement, dating to the
Neolithic and Bronze Age, and a sequence of cultivation, including
ard marks and 'cord-rig' cultivation ridges. Pottery and
radiocarbon analysis dated the earthwork to the end of the late
Iron Age or the early Roman period. A multi-period settlement,
consisting of pits, a waterhole, postholes, gullies and field
systems, was identified at Bradford's Brook, Cholsey. The main
periods represented are late Bronze Age and Romano-British, while a
small quantity of Saxon pottery indicates limited Saxon activity. A
large pit containing late Bronze Age pottery, a cattle skull,
waterlogged wood and plant remains, a complete loomweight and flint
flakes has been interpreted as a waterhole. A series of radiocarbon
dates were obtained for deposits within this feature. All three
sites are discussed individually as well as within their local,
regional and national contexts. Chapter 7 provides an overall
discussion of later Bronze Age themes that have arisen through the
excavation and analysis of these sites.
The chronological disjuncture, LBK longhouses have widely been
considered to provide ancestral influence for both rectangular and
trapezoidal long barrows and cairns, but with the discovery and
excavation of more houses in recent times is it possible to observe
evidence of more contemporary inspiration. What do the features
found beneath long mounds tell us about this and to what extent do
they represent domestic structures. Indeed, how can we distinguish
between domestic houses or halls and those that may have been
constructed for ritual purposes or ended up beneath mounds? Do so
called 'mortuary enclosures' reflect ritual or domestic
architecture and did side ditches always provide material for a
mound or for building construction? This collection of papers seeks
to explore the interface between structures often considered to be
those of the living with those for the dead.
Excavations at the Eton Rowing Course and along the Maidenhead,
Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation Channel revealed extensive
evidence for occupation in an evolving landscape of floodplains and
gravel terraces set amidst the shifting channels of the Thames. The
most significant evidence was a series of early Neolithic midden
deposits, preserved in hollows left by infilled palaeochannels.
These deposits contained dense concentrations of pottery, worked
flint, animal bone and other finds, and are put into context by
other artefact scatters from the floodplain, pits on the gravel
terrace and waterlogged environmental deposits from palaeochannels.
Early Mesolithic lakeside occupation, later Mesolithic flint
scatters along a former channel of the Thames, pits from the middle
and late Neolithic and activity areas of the Beaker and Early
Bronze Age, demonstrate longer term changes in patterns of
occupation. The excavations also revealed early, middle and late
Neolithic human remains in palaeochannels, middle Neolithic
crouched inhumation burials and early Neolithic cremated remains.
An oval barrow may have first been cut in the early Neolithic.
Other ring ditches date from the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age;
one contained a central cremation burial in a Collared Urn together
with pyre material and the remains of a bier.
A review of the most recent evidence from cursuses, and ideas on
their interpretation, with contributions as follows: Introduction
(J Harding and A Barclay) , the radiocarbon problem (A Barclay and
A Bayliss) , symbolic territories (J Harding) , processions,
memories and the Dorset cursus (R Johnston) , Dorchester on Thames
- ritual complex or ritual landscape (R Loveday) , cattle, cursus
monuments and the river ... the Upper Thames (A Barclay and G Hey)
, the Cambridgeshire Ouse (T Malim) , Eastern England (J Last) ,
the Cleaven Dyke (A Barclay and G Maxwell) , the Holywood cursus,
Dumfries (J Thomas et al) , cursus monuments in Scotland (K Brophy)
, cursus monuments in Wales (A Gibson) , cursus-like monuments in
Ireland (C Newman) , Passy-Rots and linear monuments in northern
France (I Kinnes) .
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