Early Bronze Age Round Barrows of the Anglo-Welsh Border
Early Bronze Age Round Barrows of the Anglo-Welsh Border

Author: Neal Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781407315966

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Thisresearch focuses on the Early Bronze Age round barrows of the central andnorthern Anglo-Welsh borderlands. Contextualisation of the barrows is providedby a discussion of the archaeology of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Agein the study area. Existing classificatory schemes for barrows and cairns arecritically analysed and the variety of taphonomic factors that are likely tohave influenced the distribution of these monuments today is reviewed. Thetopographical context of a series of barrow clusters is examined in detail todemonstrate subtle but important differences in how these monuments were placedin the landscape. The study provides theoretical insights into the role ofbarrows and cairns. These are seen not solely as mortuary monuments, but as'interventions' in the landscape that gave material form to particular socialconcerns through the manipulation of significant materials in special places.

The Ancient Burial-mounds of England
The Ancient Burial-mounds of England

Author: L.V. Grinsell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-24

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1317604695

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First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.

Bronze Age Settlement in the Welsh Marches
Bronze Age Settlement in the Welsh Marches

Author: John Halstead

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13:

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Archaeological evidence for Bronze Age (c,2500-750 BC) settlement in the Welsh Marches is limited and patchy with the focus of attention traditionally set on monuments and graves of the period. Despite this, John Halstead re-examines data from the Sites and Monuments Record relating to domestic settlement with a view to providing a better understanding of the nature and form of settlement locales and other activities during the period and assessing questions of settlement continuity, discontinuity and dislocation. Making inferences from site specific data and plotting these on maps of the area, he finds evidence for some degree of continuity in settlement locales and environments, perhaps with some residential mobility within these.

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland
The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Author: Richard Bradley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108419925

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Highlights the achievements of prehistoric people in Britain and Ireland over a 5,000 year period.

British Barrows
British Barrows

Author: Ann Woodward

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Prehistoric barrows were not only monuments to the dead but mounds for the living - making out land, defining pathways, acting as powerful symbols, and forming a major part of perceived landscapes which welded nature and human history together.

Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire
Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Author: Alistair Marshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1789693608

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This volume covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality.