Preserved in the Peat

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