A Woodland Archaeology: Neolithic Sites at HaddenhamMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2006 - 389 pages Set in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys, four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric environment. The highlight of Volume I is the internationally renowned Foulmire Fen long barrow, with its preserved timber burial chamber and façade. The massive individual timbers allow detailed study of Neolithic wood technology and the direct examination of a structure that usually survives only as a pattern of post holes. |
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
Constructing Identities and Landscapes 347 | 3 |
Chapter 3 | 28 |
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activity appeared Archaeology assemblage associated base blades Block bone Bronze Age buried soil burnt causewayed enclosure central chamber Chapter clay comparable complete consisted construction contained context continued core deep Delphs densities deposits distal ditch earlier Early edge evidence excavation extended façade Farm Figure finds flakes flint floor Foulmire fragments further given gravel ground Haddenham human indicate interpretation late later length long barrow lower major material metres monument mortuary structure mound nature Neolithic northern occurred original palisade pattern Phase pieces pits plank possible present primary probably produced proximal recovered recutting remains represented rings roof sampling sand sequence sherds showing side similar southern split structure suggest surface Table terrace thick timber tree trench upper Volume wall wide wood