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Iron Age riverside pit alignments at St. Ives, Cambridgeshire

Iron Age riverside pit alignments at St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
Iron Age riverside pit alignments at St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
Excavations at a deeply alluviated site near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, revealed a complex sequence of boundary works of later prehistoric and Roman date running along the edge of a former course of the river Great Ouse. The most significant of these were two successive pit alignments constructed in the early-mid 1st millennium BC. One alignment ran along the very edge of the channel and was waterlogged over much of its length; upon excavation producing a rich assemblage of worked wood, including hedging debris. Broader discussion on the social context of pit alignments as boundary systems is offered.
0079-497X
93-115
Pollard, Joshua
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Pollard, Joshua
5080faff-bc2c-4d27-b702-e40a5eb40761

Pollard, Joshua (1996) Iron Age riverside pit alignments at St. Ives, Cambridgeshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 62, 93-115. (doi:10.1017/S0079497X00002759).

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Abstract

Excavations at a deeply alluviated site near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, revealed a complex sequence of boundary works of later prehistoric and Roman date running along the edge of a former course of the river Great Ouse. The most significant of these were two successive pit alignments constructed in the early-mid 1st millennium BC. One alignment ran along the very edge of the channel and was waterlogged over much of its length; upon excavation producing a rich assemblage of worked wood, including hedging debris. Broader discussion on the social context of pit alignments as boundary systems is offered.

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Published date: January 1996
Organisations: Archaeology

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Local EPrints ID: 389670
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/389670
ISSN: 0079-497X
PURE UUID: 5a5511b5-47b7-423f-8ede-b8ec127032bb
ORCID for Joshua Pollard: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8429-2009

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2016 09:42
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:38

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