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Scarcewater, Pennance, Cornwall: Archaeological excavation of a Bronze Age and Roman landscape

Scarcewater, Pennance, Cornwall: Archaeological excavation of a Bronze Age and Roman landscape

Jones, Andy M.
Taylor, Sean R.

Paperback

Series: BAR British, Book 516

ArchaeologyAncient History General

ISBN10: 1407306456
ISBN13: 9781407306452
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Aug 15 2010
Pages: 205
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.59 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
Following an archaeological assessment, geophysical survey, and evaluation trenching, a large-scale excavation covering some 30 hectares was undertaken by the Historic Environment Service projects team of Cornwall County Council at the site of Imerys Minerals Ltd's Scarcewater tip, St Stephen-in-Brannel in 2004. The archaeological excavations were focused upon the investigation of three sunken-floored roundhouses of Middle Bronze Age date, together with a range of Bronze Age pits and timber structures, a Late Bronze Age roundhouse and palisade enclosure and pits, a Middle Iron Age 'cairn', and Romano-British settlement and funerary activity. The analyses of the information from the excavated sites has provided the opportunity to investigate shifting settlement foci and changes to Bronze Age roundhouse architecture over a period between 1500 and 1000 cal BC, and to examine the relationships between settlement-related and ceremonial activity in the middle of the second millennium cal BC. Importantly, the project has also allowed a study to be made of sites rarely identified in Cornwall. These include structures of the first millennium cal BC and Romano-British activity that was associated with both unenclosed settlement and funerary practice. Overall, the project has enabled relationships, changing patterns of settlement, architectural traditions, and spatial attitudes between the living and the dead to be considered in several key periods.

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