Sacred Mound, Holy Rings : Silbury Hill and the West Kennet palisade enclosures: a Later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire

Sacred Mound, Holy Rings Silbury Hill and the West Kennet palisade enclosures: a Later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire

The excavations at Silbury Hill in the late 1960s were broadcast to the world on television and generated a huge amount of excitement, but until now have not been published. This report gives a full account of the excavation and discusses the archaeological and environmental evidence from the tunnel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Whittle, A. W. R., author (author), Best, J., author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, England : Oxbow 1997.
Materias:
Neolithic period.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009667433806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword v
  • Preface ix
  • Acknowledgements xi
  • Archive xii
  • Radiocarbon dates xii
  • Summary 1
  • Part One: The Silbury Hill monumental mound 5
  • Location and setting 5
  • The present state of the site 7
  • History of previous investigations 8
  • Excavations in 1968-70: aims and progress 11
  • The tunnel 13
  • The top and upper part of the mound 20
  • The ditch 22
  • The nature and sequence of construction and the date of the mound 24
  • Soils 26
  • Pollen 29
  • Macroscopic plant remains 32
  • The insects 36
  • Mollusca 47
  • Vertebrates and small vertebrates 47
  • Plates 51
  • Part Two: The West Kennet palisade enclosures 53
  • Location and setting 53
  • The sequence of discovery and the aims of research 54
  • Palisade enclosure 1 57
  • The palisade ditches 57
  • Interior features 70
  • Palisade enclosure 2 76
  • The palisade ditch 76
  • Radial ditches 82
  • Interior features 83
  • Other ditches 86
  • A natural channel and valley history 86
  • Finds 90
  • Flint 90
  • Stone 93
  • Pottery 93
  • Animal bone 117
  • The wood charcoal 129
  • Charred plant remains 134
  • Part Three: A Later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire 139
  • Dating and sequence 139
  • Environments and the settlement context 140
  • Silbury Hill: interpretations and comparisons 142
  • The West Kennet palisade enclosures: interpretations and comparisons 151
  • The social and the sacred: settlement and monumentality in the Avebury area and beyond 164
  • Appendix: The Marlborough Mound 169
  • Bibliography
  • 171.

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