A Late Iron Age/early Roman Enclosed Settlement at Basing View, Basingstoke

Excavation in advance of housing development at Basing View, Basingstoke, revealed the remains of an Early Roman enclosed settlement that possibly originated in the Late Iron Age and was occupied to the early 2nd century. The settlement was fairly low status, focussed on mixed farming practices, but was notable for the presence of a possible sunken- featured building with a baby burial. The site adds to current knowledge of the Late Iron Age/Early Roman settlement archaeology of the area south of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum).

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Rural Settlement in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a Review of Three Recent Archaeological Fieldwork Reports and their Wider Implications

Britannia ◽

10.1017/s0068113x13000019 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 397-400 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adam Rogers

Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Current Knowledge ◽

Local Area ◽

Rural Settlement ◽

Huge Amount ◽

Roman Britain ◽

Amount Of Information ◽

Late Iron Age

All three well-produced reports, two excavation and one fieldwalking and magnetometry, deal with rural settlement in Iron Age and Roman Britain. They demonstrate the huge amount of information that can be gathered from such work with implications not only for our understanding of their local area but also many themes relevant to Iron Age and Roman Britain as a whole, as well as beyond. It is useful to review these reports not just in relation to the immense value that each site brings but also in terms of current knowledge and approaches taken to studying rural settlement.

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Iron Age and Roman Enclosed Settlement at Winchester Road, Basingstoke

Hampshire Studies ◽

10.24202/hs2019003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 36-97

Author(s):

Richard Massey ◽

Matt Nichol ◽

Dana Challinor ◽

Sharon Clough ◽

Matilda Holmes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Roman Period ◽

Field Boundary ◽

Crop Processing ◽

Late Iron Age ◽

Middle Iron Age ◽

Grave Goods

Excavation in Area 1 identified an enclosed settlement of Middle–Late Iron Age and Early Roman date, which included a roundhouse gully and deep storage pits with complex fills. A group of undated four-post structures, situated in the east of Area 1, appeared to represent a specialised area of storage or crop processing of probable Middle Iron Age date. A sequence of re-cutting and reorganisation of ditches and boundaries in the Late Iron Age/Early Roman period was followed, possibly after a considerable hiatus, by a phase of later Roman activity, Late Iron Age reorganisation appeared to be associated with the abandonment of a roundhouse, and a number of structured pit deposits may also relate to this period of change. Seven Late Iron Age cremation burials were associated with a contemporary boundary ditch which crossed Area 1. Two partly-exposed, L-shaped ditches may represent a later Roman phase of enclosed settlement and a slight shift in settlement focus. An isolated inhumation burial within the northern margins of Area 1 was tentatively dated by grave goods to the Early Saxon period.<br/> Area 2 contained a possible trackway and field boundary ditches, of which one was of confirmed Late Iron Age/Early Roman date. A short posthole alignment in Area 2 was undated, and may be an earlier prehistoric feature.

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Middle and Late Iron Age Occupation at Cadnam Farm, Alton, Hampshire

Hampshire Studies ◽

10.24202/hs2018004 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 73 (1) ◽

pp. 110-136

Author(s):

Oliver Good ◽

Richard Massey

Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

The South ◽

Late Iron Age ◽

South West ◽

Middle Iron Age

Three individual areas, totalling 0.55ha, were excavated at the Cadnam Farm site, following evaluation. Area 1 contained a D-shaped enclosure of Middle Iron Age date, associated with the remains of a roundhouse, and a ditched drove-way. Other features included refuse pits, a four-post structure and a small post-built structure of circular plan. Area 2 contained the superimposed foundation gullies of two Middle Iron Age roundhouses, adjacent to a probable third example. Area 3 contained a small number of Middle Iron Age pits, together with undated, post-built structures of probable Middle Iron Age date, including a roundhouse and four and six-post structures. Two large boundary ditches extended from the south-west corner of Area 3, and were interpreted as the funnelled entrance of a drove-way. These contained both domestic and industrial refuse of the late Iron Age date in their fills.

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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides

10.2307/j.ctvh1dmrf ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Late Iron Age ◽

Outer Hebrides

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Survival after trepanation—Early cranial surgery from Late Iron Age Switzerland

International Journal of Paleopathology ◽

10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.08.002 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 56-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Negahnaz Moghaddam ◽

Simone Mailler-Burch ◽

Levent Kara ◽

Fabian Kanz ◽

Christian Jackowski ◽

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Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Cranial Surgery ◽

Late Iron Age

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The Romano-British Shrines at Brigstock, Northants

The Antiquaries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0003581500051994 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 228-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ernest Greenfield

Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Fourth Century ◽

Third Century ◽

The Third ◽

Late Iron Age ◽

Polygonal Shape

SummaryTwo shrines of circular and polygonal shape, probably part of a larger group, were erected early in the second half of the third century A.D., and occupied until late in the fourth century. The shrines occur in an area of widespread settlement dating from the late Iron Age until the end of the fourth century. Many objects of bronze and iron of ritual significance, together with a large number of votive deposits and coins, were recovered from the circular shrine. Miss M. V. Taylor's discussion of the principal objects appears on pp. 264–8.

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Neolithic Pits, a Bronze Age Cremation and an Early Iron Age Ring-Ditch at Newton Farm, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire

Scottish Archaeological Journal ◽

10.3366/saj.2010.0002 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 31 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-31

Author(s):

Leonora O'Brien ◽

Victoria Clements ◽

Mike Roy ◽

Neil Macnab

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Iron Age ◽

Housing Development ◽

Early Iron Age ◽

Small Ring ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

River Terraces

Fieldwork at Newton Farm, Cambuslang (NGR NS 672 610) was undertaken in advance of housing development in 2005–6. A cluster of six shallow Neolithic pits were excavated, and a collection of 157 round-based, carinated bowl sherds and a quern fragment were recovered from them. The pits produced a date range of 3700 to 3360 cal BC. Most of the pits yielded burnt material, and one of the pits showed evidence of in situ burning. The pottery may form ‘structured deposits’. A Bronze Age adult cremation placed in a Food Vessel dated to 3610±30 BP (2040–1880 cal BC) was set in a wider landscape of single and multiple cremations and inhumations on the river terraces overlooking the Clyde. A possible unurned cremation was also identified. This was cut by the course of a small ring-ditch dated to the very late Bronze Age or early Iron Age 2520±30 BP (800–530cal BC).

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