A Late Iron Age Furnace Excavation on the Farm Longridge, Agatha, North-Eastern Transvaal, South Africa

1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (143) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menno Klapwijk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
North Eastern

scholarly journals Along the Danube and at the Foothills of the North-Eastern Hungarian Mountains: Some Data on the Distribution of Stone Raw Materials in the Late Iron Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Zoltán Czajlik
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
Stone Materials ◽  
Geological Features ◽  
North Eastern

Stones as raw materials are important environmental resources often found at prehistoric sites. Since their various types essentially retained their original geological features, it is generally relatively easy to identify their origin. Nevertheless, there is hardly any systematic research on late prehistoric stone raw materials. Furthermore, these materials are mentioned very inconsistently and the geological terms, definitions and analyzes are absent from the discussions. The general picture that we can sketch based on secondary literature is therefore mosaic-like. However, it is by no means impossible to identify extraction sites. Based on on-site experience and using modern analyzes, it is possible, for example, to differentiate between individual types of sandstone and andesite. From the perspective of future research, analyzes of late Iron Age stone materials from well-studied archaeological contexts could contribute to understand better how stones as raw materials were used in late prehistoric periods.

The Movement of Ideas in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain: An Imported Rotary Quern Design in South-Western England

Britannia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 393-402
Author(s):  
Ruth Shaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Thin Section ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Thin Section Analysis ◽  
Section Analysis ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACTIn 2012, a complete upper stone of a rotary quern with a projecting lug for a vertical handle was found at Hinkley Point in Somerset, south-western England. It is the first late Iron Age to early Roman period quern of this form to be found in England. This note describes its form in detail and discusses its closest parallels in north-eastern Ireland, south-western Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man and Spain. It shows how thin-section analysis demonstrates the quern to have been locally made in Somerset and discusses the movement of ideas about quern design during the late Iron Age to early Roman period.

The size of indigenous Venda cattle during the Late Iron Age in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 231-235
Author(s):  
Shaw Badenhorst ◽  
Munyadziwa Magoma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Iron Age

Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (173/174) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius C. C. Pistorius ◽  
Shaw Badenhorst ◽  
Ina Plug
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
North West Province

scholarly journals A preliminary report on settlement layout and gold melting at Thula Mela, a Late Iron Age site in the Kruger National Park

Koedoe ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Kusel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
National Park ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Kruger National Park ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Late Iron Age

Archaeological investigations at a Late Iron Age stone-walled hill site, Thula Mela, near the Luvuvhu River in the Pafuri area of the Kruger National Park, have produced evidence of gold melting. The recovery of two fragments of pottery crucibles with the remains of slag and gold globules and three gold beads from a test trench in a midden at Thula Mela represents the first direct evidence of indigenous gold melting in South Africa. From radiocarbon dates it was established that this site was occupied between the fifteenth and early seventeenth century AD.

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