Preserved in the Peat

An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; wo pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer of purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age elsewhere in southern Britain.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-05
Mått:210 x 297 x 19 mm
Vikt:1 134 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Oxbow Books
ISBN:9781789258783

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Andy M. Jones is Projects Manager at Cornwall Archaeological Unit. His research interests include the Neolithic and Bronze Age of western Britain. Major publications include: Preserved in the Peat: An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context (2016) and Later Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: Evidence from Five Excavations (2021).

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Section 1: BackgroundChapter 1: IntroductionAndy M Jones Section 2: Deconstructing and reconstructing the cistChapter 2: Results from the 2011 fieldworkAndy M JonesChapter 3: The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts Helen WilliamsChapter 4: The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cistRichard BrunningChapter 5: The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse HillM.G. Canti Section 3: Assembling the burialChapter 6: The human remains Simon MaysChapter 7: The wood charcoal Zoë HazellChapter 8: The charred textiles from the cremation depositSusanna HarrisChapter 9: The matted plant material from the base of the cistJulie JonesChapter 10: The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samplesRalph Fyfe and Marta Perez Section 4: Items with the young adultChapter 11: The animal peltEsther Cameron and Quita MouldChapter 12: The copper-alloy pinAlison Sheridan, Esther Cameron and Henrietta Quinnell Chapter 13: The basketry containerCaroline Cartwright, Maggie Cooper, Sherry Doyal, Dinah Eastop, Linda Lemieux and Ruth Stungo Chapter 14: The composite braided hair armband or braceletAlison Sheridan, Esther Cameron, Caroline Cartwright, Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Susanna Harris, Linda Hurcombe, Jamie Inglis, Quita Mould, Caroline Solazzo and Helen WilliamsChapter 15: The composite necklaceAlison Sheridan, with contributions by Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Jamie Inglis, Henrietta Quinnell, Hal Redvers-Jones, Roger Taylor, Kate Verkooijen, Helen Williams and Lore TroalenChapter 16: The wooden studsAlison Sheridan, Richard Brunning, Vanessa Straker, Gill Campbell, Caroline Cartwright, Stuart King and Henrietta QuinnellChapter 17: The flint Anna Lawson-JonesChapter 18: The textile and animal-skin objectEsther Cameron, Susanna Harris and Quita Mould Section 5: The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape contextChapter 19: The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cistRalph M. Fyfe, Jeffrey J. Blackford, Mark Hardiman, Zoë Hazell, Alison MacLeod, Marta Perez and Sarah Littlewood Section 6: The radiocarbon datingChapter 20: Interpreting the chronology of the cist Peter Marshall, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nicola Russell, Fiona Brock and Paula Reimer Section 7: Discussion, interpretation and conclusions Chapter 21: The results from the projectAndy M Jones AppendicesAppendix A: Chemical analysis of beads from the Whitehorse Hill cistJoanna DunsterAppendix B: Report on the scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination of the basketry container and other organic artefacts from Whitehorse Hill cistCaroline CartwrightAppendix C: Report on the proteomic analysis of hairs from the basketry container, the braided band and the pelt from the Whitehorse Hill cistCaroline Solazzo