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1 online resource (417 pages) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Colour Plates -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Archives -- Radiocarbon Dates -- Summary -- Résumé -- Zusammenfassung -- Chapter 1: The Excavations of 1965-1969 -- Location and setting -- Geology and topography: further detail Fiona Roe -- The circumstances of the excavations -- The role of the Oxford City and County Museum -- Early site records and recent history -- The trial excavation of 1965 -- Excavations 1966-1969 -- Introduction -- Site recording -- Finds recording |
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1966: the western end -- 1967: the eastern end -- 1968: the burials -- 1969: the final season -- The fate of the long barrow -- Post-excavation analysis -- Chapter 2: The Pre-Barrow Contexts -- Introduction -- The character of the buried soil -- The extent of the buried soil -- Surface topography -- The buried soil surface and the buried soil profile -- Mesolithic occupation -- Neolithic occupation -- The Neolithic midden -- Other, uncertain, pre-barrow features -- Chapter 3: The Environmental Setting -- The snails -- Introduction -- The site of Ascott-under-Wychwood long barrow |
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General comments on sequence -- The Mesolithic tree-throw F11 -- The question of woodland closing in the Mesolithic -- The buried soil -- The large, hand-picked snails -- The Neolithic quarry infilling: the prehistoric soils -- The Neolithic quarry: the historical period -- The Roman quarry -- Modern faunas on limestone in the area of Ascott-under-Wychwood -- The Warburg Reserve -- A pre-barrow thin section Richard Macphail -- Methods -- Results and discussion -- Note by J. G. Evans and Ian Cornwall -- Charcoals -- Discussion -- The tree-throw pit, F11 -- The molluscan faunas |
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The immediate pre-barrow environment -- The barrow and post-barrow environments -- Other sites in the region with molluscan faunas -- Chapter 4: The Long Barrow -- Barrow construction -- The main elements of construction -- Geology of stone used in the construction -- Timber posts in wooden structures and axial divides -- Midden and cists -- Stone cists -- Stone cists and the axial divide -- The axial divide in the area of the primary barrow -- The dismantling of the axial divide in the area of the cists (7/16) -- Stone cists and the north-south transverse corridor -- The bays |
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Preliminary description of bays and defining off-sets -- Distinct deposits of large limestone blocks -- Further building: early phases in the western areas of the construction site -- Further building: early phases in the eastern area of the construction site -- Upper fills of bays -- Off-set partitions that were constructed over bay fills -- Further developments: the infilling of the transverse corridor and the construction of passage areas and the inner walls -- The infilling of the transverse corridor -- The southern passage area -- The northern passage area -- The inner walls |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whittle, Alasdair
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| ISBN |
9781782979227 |
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1782979220 |
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