Cliffs End Farm Isle of Thanet, Kent: A mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period with evidence for long-distance maritime mobility.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKinley, Jacqueline I.
Otros Autores: Leivers, Matt, Schuster, Jörn, Marshall, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 2015.
Temas:
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Thanet.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Angleterre > Thanet.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Thanet (England) > Antiquities.
England > Thanet
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Summary
  • Foreign language summaries
  • Chapter 1: Introduction by Jörn Schuster
  • Location and Geology
  • Archaeological Background
  • Mesolithic and Neolithic
  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
  • Romano-British
  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Project Background and Research Aims
  • Methods of Excavation and Recording
  • Chapter 2: Prehistoric Evidence by Matt Leivers and Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Evidence for early prehistoric activity by Matt Leivers
  • Neolithic features
  • Beaker and Early Bronze Age features
  • Barrow 1
  • Barrow 2
  • Barrow 3
  • Barrow 4
  • Barrow 5
  • Barrow 6
  • Discussion
  • Middle Bronze Age
  • Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age features
  • Northern Enclosure
  • Central Enclosure
  • Southern Enclosure
  • Mortuary Feature 2018 by Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Late Bronze Age: 11th-9th century cal BC
  • Burial Pit 3666
  • Mortuary and other deposits external to Burial Pit 3666 .52
  • Late Early Iron Age: 5th century cal BC
  • Pits
  • Mortuary deposits
  • Middle Iron Age: 4th-3rd century cal BC
  • Pits
  • Mortuary deposits
  • Late Iron Age/Romano-British period (including features external to Mortuary Feature 2018)
  • Natural features
  • Chapter 3: Chronology and the Radiocarbon Dating Programme by Peter Marshall, Alistair J. Barclay, Alex Bayliss, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Gordon Cook, Pieter M. Grootes, John Meadows, and Johannes van der Plicht
  • Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Sample selection
  • Radiocarbon laboratory methods
  • Results
  • Calibration
  • Stable isotopes
  • Methodological approach
  • Later prehistoric site chronology
  • Samples and sequence
  • Burial Pit 3666 and 'satellite' deposits
  • Single graves and human bone deposits
  • Midden Pit 2028
  • Northern Enclosure.
  • Central Enclosure
  • Southern Enclosure
  • Human skull from pit 2834
  • Pit 3455
  • Late Bronze Age pottery
  • Modelling and interpretation
  • Mortuary Feature 2018
  • Late Bronze Age enclosures and Midden Pit 2028
  • Ceramic sequence and chronology
  • Forms and decoration
  • Discussion
  • Fabrics
  • Site chronology
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Human Bone and Mortuary Deposits by Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Taphonomy and ancient modification
  • Demographic data
  • Minimum number of individuals
  • Late Bronze Age
  • Early Iron Age
  • Middle Iron Age
  • Late Iron Age-Romano-British
  • Age and sex
  • Metric and non-metric data
  • Skeletal indices
  • Pathology
  • Dental disease
  • Trauma
  • Joint disease
  • Infection
  • Miscellaneous lesions
  • Health status overview
  • Isotopic investigation of residential mobility and diet by Andrew Millard
  • Principles
  • Materials
  • Methods
  • Sample preparation
  • O-isotope analysis
  • Sr-isotope analysis
  • C-, and N-isotope analysis
  • Statistical analysis
  • Results and discussion
  • Individual migrations
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 5: Prehistoric Finds and Environmental Evidence
  • Prehistoric pottery by Matt Leivers
  • Methods
  • Condition
  • Fabrics
  • Early and Middle Neolithic
  • Beaker and Early Bronze Age
  • Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
  • Manufacture, technological attributes and surface treatments
  • Form
  • Decoration
  • Function and use
  • Absolute dating and feature group assemblages
  • Midden Pit 2028
  • Other feature group assemblages
  • Discussion
  • Fired clay by Matt Leivers
  • Flint by Matt Leivers and Phil Harding
  • Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic flint
  • Early Bronze Age flint
  • Central features
  • Context (2888) group 215 by Phil Harding
  • Ditches
  • Redeposited material
  • Discussion
  • Late Bronze Age flint
  • Raw material
  • Technology.
  • Major feature groups
  • Discussion
  • Animal bone by Jessica M. Grimm and L. Higbee
  • Methods
  • Animal bone from Mortuary Feature 2018
  • Late Bronze Age: 11th-9th century cal BC
  • Early Iron Age: 5th century cal BC
  • Middle Iron Age: 4th-3rd century cal BC
  • Late Iron Age/Romano-British
  • Animal bone from other prehistoric features
  • Beaker and Early Bronze Age
  • Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
  • Animal keeping in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age
  • Ritual versus economic behaviours
  • Bronze Age metalwork by Lorraine Mepham with Jörn Schuster
  • A probable lead alloy weight from Burial Pit 3666 by Jörn Schuster
  • Slag by Phil Andrews
  • Analysis and metallography of ingots and metalworking waste by J. Peter Northover
  • Sampling and analysis
  • Compositions
  • Microstructures
  • Discussion
  • Worked bone by Jessica M. Grimm with Jörn Schuster
  • Raw material
  • Tool types
  • Distribution
  • Discussion
  • Worked stone by Kevin Hayward and Matt Leivers with Lorraine Mepham
  • Discussion
  • Environmental evidence charred and mineralised plant remains by Chris J. Stevens
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Wood charcoal by Catherine Barnett
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Interpretation
  • Pollen analysis of Midden Pit 2028 in the Northern Enclosure by Rob Scaife
  • Method
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • Soil Micromorphology of a buried soil in Midden Pit 2028 by Richard I. Macphail
  • Samples and methods
  • Results
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • Chapter 6: Discussion and Concluding Remarks by Stuart Needham, Jacqueline I. McKinley and Matt Leivers
  • The site and its use in the Late Bronze, Early and Middle Iron Age by Matt Leivers
  • Mortuary rites by Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Thanet: fulcrum of the north-western seaways by Stuart Needham
  • The influence of the Early Bronze Age barrow group.
  • The Late Bronze Age ritual system at Cliffs End
  • The Late Bronze Age mortuary deposits and disarticulted human bones
  • Resumption of mortuary activity in the Iron Age
  • Continuity and recurrence
  • The inter-regional connections implied by the human remains
  • Late Bronze Age
  • Early Iron Age
  • Middle Iron Age
  • The Cliffs End enclave in the 1st millennium BC
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery and Settlement by Jacqueline I. McKinley and Nick Stoodley
  • Cemetery features by Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Grave catalogue
  • Human remains
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Taphonomy
  • Demographic data
  • Pathology
  • Isotopic analysis by Andrew Millard
  • Grave goods and cemetery discussion by Nick Stoodley with contributions by Talla Hopper and Jörn Schuster
  • Grave goods
  • Metalwork
  • Weapons
  • Personal equipment
  • Beads by Talla Hopper
  • Wooden cup/bowl by Jörn Schuster
  • Cemetery discussion by Nick Stoodley
  • Chronology of the cemetery and graves
  • The wider burial rite
  • Social identity
  • Cemetery layout
  • Non-cemetery features by Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Pits
  • Ditches
  • Cliffs End in the wider landscape by Nick Stoodley
  • Conclusion
  • Non-cemetery finds
  • Metalwork from pits in the southern part of the site by Jörn Schuster
  • Post-Roman pottery by Lorraine Mepham
  • The assemblage
  • Discussion
  • Worked stone by Kevin Hayward and Matt Leivers
  • Textile by Sharon Penton and Jacqui Watson
  • Animal bone assemblage by Jessica M. Grimm and L. Higbee
  • Taphonomy
  • Results
  • Worked bone by Jessica M. Grimm
  • Environmental evidence
  • Charred plant remains by Chris J. Stevens
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Wood charcoal by Catherine Barnett
  • Results
  • Interpretation
  • Marine shell by Sarah F. Wyles
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Concluding remarks by Jacqueline I. McKinley and Jörn Schuster
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices.
  • Appendix 1: Midden Pit 2028 layer and context number concordance
  • Appendix 2: Prehistoric pottery fabric descriptions by Matt Leivers
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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