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Title Preserved in the peat : an extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context / Andy M. Jones
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016

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Contents Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Background -- 1. Introduction / Andy M. Jones -- Section 2 Deconstructing and reconstructing the cist -- 2. Results from the 2011 fieldwork / Andy M. Jones -- 3. The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts / Helen Williams -- 4. The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cist / Richard Brunning -- 5. The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse Hill / Matt Canti -- Section 3 Assembling the burial -- 6. The human remains / Simon Mays -- 7. The wood charcoal / Zoe Hazell -- 8. The charred textiles from the cremation deposit / Susanna Harris -- 9. The matted plant material from the base of the cist / Julie Jones -- 10. The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samples / Marta Perez -- Section 4 Items with the young adult -- 11. The animal pelt / Quita Mould -- 12. The copper-alloy pin / Henrietta Quinnell -- 13. The basketry container / Ruth Stungo -- 14. The composite braided hair armband or bracelet / Helen Williams -- 15. The composite necklace / Helen Williams -- 16. The wooden studs / Henrietta Quinnell -- 17. The flint / Anna Lawson-Jones -- 18. The textile and animal-skin object / Quita Mould -- Section 5 The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape context -- 19. The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist / Sarah Littlewood -- Section 6 The radiocarbon dating -- 20. Interpreting the chronology of the cist / Paula Reimer -- Section 7 Discussion, interpretation and conclusions -- 21. The results from the project / Andy M. Jones
Summary "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; two 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 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"--From publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bronze age -- England -- Dartmoor
Prehistoric peoples -- England -- Dartmoor
Burial -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500
Grave goods -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500
Material culture -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500
Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Dartmoor
Peat -- England -- Dartmoor
Antiquities
Bronze age
Burial
Excavations (Archaeology)
Grave goods
Material culture
Peat
Prehistoric peoples
Bronzezeit
Funde
Grab
SUBJECT Whitehorse Hill (Devon, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2017004650
Dartmoor (England) -- Antiquities
Subject England -- Whitehorse Hill (Devon)
England -- Dartmoor
Dartmoor
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016021504
ISBN 9781785702617
1785702610
9781785702624
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9781785702631
1785702637