Title Fiskerton : an Iron Age timber causeway with Iron Age and Roman votive offerings, the 1981 excavations / by Naomi Field and Mike Parker Pearson, with contributions by John Baker [and others]

Published Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 226 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, plans Contents Preface / N. Field and M. Parker Pearson -- Summary -- Resume -- Zusammenfassung -- 1. The Timber Causeway -- Topography and setting / N. Field -- The excavation / N. Field, C. Palmer-Brown and M. Parker Pearson -- 2. The Environmental Setting of the Causeway -- The soils / C. Whiteman and R. MacPhail -- The plant remains: macrofossils and pollen / J. Greig -- The insects / P. J. Osborne -- Environmental overview / M. Parker Pearson -- 3. The Wooden Remains -- Tree-ring analysis of the causeway timbers / J. Hillam -- The wood / M. Taylor -- 4. The Iron Age Weaponry and Tools -- The Iron Age military items / I. Stead -- The iron tools / V. Fell -- The condition and metallographic examination of the ironwork / V. Fell -- Detailed scientific examination of axe-head 413 / L. Biek, J. B. Johnson, J. Cooper and J. D. A. Miller -- 5. The Other Iron Age Artefacts -- The Iron Age pottery / S. Elsdon and D. Knight -- The bone and antler artefacts: their manufacture and use / S. L. Olsen -- The amber and jet artefacts / M. Parker Pearson -- The worked stone / M. Parker Pearson and V. Fell -- 6. The Roman and Medieval Artefacts -- The Roman pottery / M. Darling and N. Field -- The Roman tile / J. Young -- The Roman metalwork / A. P. Fitzpatrick, A. Walster, A. B. Page, N. Field and J. Mann -- The Roman whetstones / M. Parker Pearson -- The post-Roman pottery and tile / J. Young -- The post-Roman metalwork / A. R. Goodall and V. Fell -- 7. The Human and Animal Bones -- The human bones / A. T. Chamberlain -- The radiocarbon dates for the human bones / P. Marshall -- The mammalian and bird bones / J. Mulville, J. A. Baker, D. Bramwell and M. Harman -- The fish bones / A. K. G. Jones -- 8. The Fiskerton Causeway -- The construction and appearance of the causeway / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- Lunar eclipses, Saros cycles and the construction of the causeway / A. T. Chamberlain -- Social implications of lunar eclipse measurement for calendrical knowledge and archaeoastronomy / A. T. Chamberlain and M. Parker Pearson -- 9. Fiskerton in Its Local and Regional Setting -- Finds from the River Witham / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- The Palaeolithic to Earlier Neolithic landscape / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- The Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age landscape / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- The Middle and Late Bronze Age landscape / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- Other possible causeways in the Fiskerton area / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- Activity contemporary with the Fiskerton causeway / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- Activity post-dating the Fiskerton causeway / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- 10. The Fiskerton Votive Assemblage and Its Context -- Votive deposition in the Witham / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- The Fiskerton artefact assemblage / M. Parker Pearson and N. Field -- Celtic art and its social and depositional context / M. Parker Pearson -- 11. The British and European Context of Fiskerton -- Continental comparisons / M. Parker Pearson -- British and Irish comparisons / M. Parker Pearson -- 12. Regional Social Dynamics in Later Prehistoric Eastern England -- Deposition and settlement / M. Parker Pearson -- Votive deposits as boundary phenomena / M. Parker Pearson -- App. Other Archaeological Excavations at Fiskerton -- Perrins Cottages, High Street / N. Field and C. Palmer-Brown -- Nelson Road / N. Field and C. Palmer-Brown Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index Notes Includes summaries in French and German Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Witham Valley Iron age -- England -- Witham Valley Celtic antiquities Classical antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Iron age Archeologische vondsten. Wegen. Wijgeschenken. 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology. Ausgrabung Funde Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain -- Fiskerton. Iron age -- Great Britain -- Fiskerton. Celtic antiquities. SUBJECT Witham Valley (England) -- Antiquities, Celtic Witham Valley (England) -- Antiquities, Roman Fiskerton Site (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001206 Subject England -- Fiskerton Site England -- Witham Valley Fiskerton Fiskerton (England) -- Antiquities. Form Electronic book Author Parker Pearson, Michael, 1957- ISBN 9781789256499 1789256496

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