Pub Date : 2021-10-21DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1990509
Anna Booth
official Roman presence at Maryport. The excavators, rightly, do not overindulge in speculation. However, it is the importance of their findings, and the strength of this report, that we can be inspired to ponder wider aspects of the practice of Roman religion and how a community in the far north-west of Britannia responded to it. A word must be said about the cover illustration, which is a very atmospheric reconstruction image of the two temples, with the clouds of the dark ages looming over them. A sunnier and more optimistic reconstruction can be seen on the back cover, and would have been my preference for the front image. In all, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in frontier religion, classical cults in the provinces, and in the final century of the Roman North. It casts much-needed new light on classical/military religious practice, using a site that has the best such evidence in Britain.
{"title":"Crownthorpe: a Boudican hoard of bronze vessels from early Roman Norfolk","authors":"Anna Booth","doi":"10.1080/00665983.2021.1990509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2021.1990509","url":null,"abstract":"official Roman presence at Maryport. The excavators, rightly, do not overindulge in speculation. However, it is the importance of their findings, and the strength of this report, that we can be inspired to ponder wider aspects of the practice of Roman religion and how a community in the far north-west of Britannia responded to it. A word must be said about the cover illustration, which is a very atmospheric reconstruction image of the two temples, with the clouds of the dark ages looming over them. A sunnier and more optimistic reconstruction can be seen on the back cover, and would have been my preference for the front image. In all, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in frontier religion, classical cults in the provinces, and in the final century of the Roman North. It casts much-needed new light on classical/military religious practice, using a site that has the best such evidence in Britain.","PeriodicalId":44491,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89722952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1990575
Brandon Fathy
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1990576
P. Gleeson
a more general geographical approach and do not directly re-interpret Eastern Yorkshire evidence, but readers can make their own connections. The three papers interpreting aspects of the burial data are the ones that help to progress our understanding of the subject, as does the summarized excavation report on Pocklington. The landscape context of burials is overlooked, and reference to previous published work on this is a major gap of the volume. John Dent’s paper is an autobiographical insight into his ground-breaking excavations. Apart from those studying Iron Age burials of Eastern Yorkshire, the main audience for the volume will be for students of the Iron Age, funerary archaeology and/or specific finds specialisms. Like many edited conference proceedings, most readers will be those looking up a specific paper that is cited elsewhere or that appears on a reading list. I can see the volume being checked out of university libraries for courses where essays on the region’s Iron Age burials are set.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1970922
M. Thacker
ABSTRACT This paper will reconsider the evidence relating to ecclesiastical buildings in Atlantic Scotland which have been ascribed to various early medieval constructional dates on the basis of Irish comparanda and historical accounts associated with Scandinavian settlement. Critical discussion will consider how archaeological, architectural, historical, and independent dating evidence have been used at different times to present consistent narratives for these buildings, and how recent investigations at Teampull Ronain (North Rona) and St Columba’s Shrine (Iona) might inform these international typologies.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-06DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1968169
P. Hunter, C. Waddington, Milena Grzybowska, Luke Parker, D. Hamilton
ABSTRACT The dating of palisaded enclosures in Britain remains poorly understood with few sites having been directly dated by scientific means using suitable, reliable samples. Excavations to support a possible planning application for an extension at Harden Quarry, Northumberland, provided the impetus to investigate a Scheduled palisaded enclosure on the edge of the Cheviot Hills, where one of the largest concentrations of these monument types is known. Excavation was also undertaken on adjacent features including a ring cairn, clearance cairn, and land allotment boundary. The palisaded enclosure contained a multiphase settlement within it, but the palisaded phase of the site appeared to be single phase and was securely radiocarbon dated to the late sixth – fifth century cal. BC. It is thought most likely that the linear boundary feature relates to a field system connected to the use of the palisaded settlement. Evidence for Mesolithic activity on the hilltop was attested by chipped flints and radiocarbon dates from a later feature. The clearance cairn likely dates to the Beaker period whilst cremations from the ring cairn were dated to the Early Bronze Age. Later cord rigg agriculture could be seen to overlie the ring cairn, palisaded enclosure and linear boundary.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-29DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1949148
B. Russell, Tanja Romankiewicz, T. Gardner, A. Birley, J. Snyder, C. Beckett
ABSTRACT Turf was widely used as a building material in the Roman period, especially in military architecture. Despite this, few studies have investigated properties of turf in construction, and fewer still have applied micromorphology to ancient turf walls. This study details the methods and results from a combined macro- and micro-scale analysis, using samples from the well-preserved ramparts at Vindolanda, a fort associated with Hadrian’s Wall. Our work not only proposes a refined methodology for the wider geoarchaeological study of turf walls, but also provides new, deeper insight into the properties of turf as a building material.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1921413
P. Daniel
ABSTRACT Excavations in 2014–15 in the vicinity of Bucklow Hill revealed two clusters of cremated human remains, one focused on a ring-ditch, the other on a similar but destroyed monument. Ephemeral traces of earlier activity were found. A programme of radiocarbon dating revealed the earliest human remains in both clusters to be Early Bronze Age, with burial continuing episodically until the Middle Bronze Age. Environmental remains indicate the exploitation of wild plants and cultivation of hardy hulled wheats and barley in the Bronze Age. A group of probable early medieval inhumation graves were dug into the ring-ditch. As well as these graves, scattered medieval pits were also found; oats, barley and rye were grown during this period. These later remains are of significance as there is a dearth of comparable evidence from rural sites in the region and this contributes to the emerging understanding of the reuse of prehistoric funerary monuments in the English north midlands.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1936754
E. Walker, Oliver Davis
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of work undertaken on the multi-period site of Burry Holms, Gower, South Wales by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Burry Holms is a small tidal island that possesses a rich prehistoric and historical heritage. In 1998 the opportunity arose to excavate its important Mesolithic remains. The work generated rich new lithic and palaeoenvironmental data and a series of OSL and radiocarbon dates. A surprising discovery during the excavation was an Iron Age roundhouse and other later prehistoric features. This later evidence is incorporated with the detailed consideration of the Mesolithic exploitation of the island.
本文介绍了Amgueddfa Cymru -威尔士国家博物馆在南威尔士高尔的burryholms多时期遗址进行的工作成果。巴里霍尔姆斯是一个潮汐小岛，拥有丰富的史前和历史遗产。1998年，发掘重要的中石器时代遗迹的机会出现了。这项工作产生了丰富的新的岩屑和古环境数据，以及一系列的OSL和放射性碳年代测定。在挖掘过程中，一个令人惊讶的发现是一个铁器时代的圆屋和其他后来的史前特征。后来的证据与中石器时代对该岛的开发的详细考虑相结合。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1862488
P. Ryder
general reader, and, on the whole, it meets this intention. Occasionally, there is the slight ‘crunching of gears’ between chapters as the topic and focus changes, but there has been enough editing and rewriting to ensure a general sense of flow and to avoid undue repetition or complex technical detail. The resulting volume is a clear, effective and up-to-date review of the early historic archaeology of North-East Scotland making the latest research accessible to the enthusiastic amateur at an extremely modest cost (less than half the price it would cost a non-subscriber to access just one of these articles via the original journal!). It’s an attractively presented, easily accessible way in for anyone interested in Pictish archaeology.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1862485
D. Petts
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