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Shards of war plains of ashford1/2/2024 Three beads, one of faience, one of amber and another of glass, were also found. An artefactual assemblage including Bronze and Iron Age pottery and stonework was recovered. One ring cairn, Site 9 was reused as a ceremonial monument in the Middle Bronze Age and again in the Iron Age as a house site. The cairn group comprised three ring cairns and two ‘tailed’ cairns. The third season was evaluative, designed to confirm the existence of a number of cairns and a field system and to sample palaeoenvironmental sites on the Northern Downs. The first two seasons of fieldwork focused on excavation of an Early Bronze Age cairn group and Middle Bronze Age and Middle Iron Age settlement activity. Pottery from later periods is testament to the continued importance of the valley in later prehistory and historical periods.īetween 19 three seasons of archaeological recording were carried out by Cornwall Archaeological Unit within Imerys’ Stannon China Clay Works. The data indicates that Ewden Valley was the location of activity throughout prehistory, and that specific sites on terraces overlooking the floodplain of the valley were chosen to undertake tasks during the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. Examination of this information recovered earlier was incorporated within the present report. While this material was being examined, our attention was drawn to the existence of much larger previously unrecorded assemblages of chipped stone and pottery collected by Mr Terry Howard during the 1960s from the same location under similar circumstances. A small assemblage of prehistoric chipped stone artefacts were also recovered, along with pottery sherds of Roman, Medieval and post-medieval date. Numerous features of probable post medieval and early modern date were recorded, as well as several that are possible prehistoric features. These surveys were undertaken at short notice in response to the unusual conditions during September of those years. Rapid walkover surveys were undertaken by Bolsterstone Archaeology and Heritage Group of the banks of Broomhead Reservoir during periods when the water level was exceptionally low due to drought in the summers of 20. There is recorded folk practice which indicates that one nearby 'dolmen-like' rock, the Bawd Stone, has long been venerated. These may well have been seen as a special place in prehistory, rising through the tree-covered landscape of the nearby lowlands, an 'other world' perhaps 'created' by spirits and ancestors. The setting is also instructive, for the grave is placed in a saddle below spectacular rock outcrops. This flat grave is important in that it is an example of burial practices in the uplands of northern England rarely glimpsed in landscapes which are not often ploughed or otherwise disturbed. Bone from the cremation produced a radiocarbon date of 1890-1680 cal BC (at 2σ). In the heap there was also a small bronze awl and broken pieces of a calcined bone toggle. The pot had been placed leaning against the pit side, resting on top of a heap of calcined bones which comprised human bones together with those of a pig. A rescue excavation was mounted by staff of the Peak District National Park Authority and it was found that the small and somewhat squat urn, decorated with twisted cord and incised decoration, lay within a purposefully dug grave pit, most of which survived. While digging a pit for sand, a mattock was put through a collared urn at a place where there had never been a barrow or other known Bronze Age monument. In May 2015 contractors were repairing the public footpath that passes close to the southern edge of The Roaches outcrop they made an unexpected discovery.
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