Bronze Age Metalwork in Northern East Anglia

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin F. Pendleton
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
East Anglia

scholarly journals Intestinal parasites at the Late Bronze Age settlement of Must Farm, in the fens of East Anglia, UK (9th century B.C.E.)

Parasitology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (12) ◽  
pp. 1583-1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa L. Ledger ◽  
Elisabeth Grimshaw ◽  
Madison Fairey ◽  
Helen L. Whelton ◽  
Ian D. Bull ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Intestinal Parasites ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Timber Structures ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Infected People ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Raw Fish ◽  
Diphyllobothrium Latum

AbstractLittle is known about the types of intestinal parasites that infected people living in prehistoric Britain. The Late Bronze Age archaeological site of Must Farm was a pile-dwelling settlement located in a wetland, consisting of stilted timber structures constructed over a slow-moving freshwater channel. At excavation, sediment samples were collected from occupation deposits around the timber structures. Fifteen coprolites were also hand-recovered from the occupation deposits; four were identified as human and seven as canine, using fecal lipid biomarkers. Digital light microscopy was used to identify preserved helminth eggs in the sediment and coprolites. Eggs of fish tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium latum and Diphyllobothrium dendriticum), Echinostoma sp., giant kidney worm (Dioctophyma renale), probable pig whipworm (Trichuris suis) and Capillaria sp. were found. This is the earliest evidence for fish tapeworm, Echinostoma worm, Capillaria worm and the giant kidney worm so far identified in Britain. It appears that the wetland environment of the settlement contributed to establishing parasite diversity and put the inhabitants at risk of infection by helminth species spread by eating raw fish, frogs or molluscs that flourish in freshwater aquatic environments, conversely the wetland may also have protected them from infection by certain geohelminths.

scholarly journals Flint and other Stone Implements found at Mary Tavy, Devon

1917 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-351
Author(s):  
G. W. Smallwood
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
East Anglia

First of all I must express my thanks for the opportunity given me to exhibit before the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia specimens from my collection of Flint and other Stone Implements found at Mary Tavy, Devon, and for the observations made on them by Mr. Reginald Smith, F.S.A., and Mr. W. G. Clarke.My collection was commenced about twelve years ago, and an interesting series has been accumulated, the 133 specimens exhibited being representative of the various types found.Although there is no question as to the “humanity” of the flint specimens, those made of slate and other rocks seem likely to cause a diversity of opinion, and are therefore of greater interest and I hope may induce other prehistoric archæologists to make a special study of them. Both the flint and other stone implements probably belong to the same period; there seems to be some doubt as to which age they can be assigned to, but the late Neolithic or Early Bronze age appears to be the most likely.

The neolithic stone axe trade in Britain

Antiquity ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
pp. 201-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Group Vi ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Group I ◽  
Similar Distance ◽  
Social Importance

For over thirty years, work has been in progress on the petrological examination and identification of stone implements. This work, initiated in South-Western England, has as its object the determination of ‘early trade routes and other factors of economic and social importance in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times’ (Keiller, Piggott and Wallis, 1941). During this period, eight regional reports have been published, five dealing mainly with South- Western England (Keiller, Piggott and Wallis, 1941; Stone and Wallis, 1947; Stone and Wallis, 1951 ; Evens, Grinsell, Piggott and Wallis, 1962; Evens, Smith and Wallis, 1972), one with Yorkshire (Keen and Radley, 1971), one with East Anglia (Clough and Green, 1972) and one with Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire (Cummins and Moore, 1973). In these and other publications (e.g. Fox, 1964; Fell, 1964) distribution maps are given for the products of the various axe factories. Such maps show the extent of dispersal of the factory products, but fail, in themselves, to give much information about trade routes and other factors. Group I axes are found in Yorkshire, some 550 km. from their source in Cornwall; Group IX axes are found a similar distance from their factories in Northern Ireland; and Group VI axes are widespread up to 500 km. from their Lake District factory sites.

Neolithic and Bronze Age Norfolk

1996 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 41-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Ashwin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Future Research ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Archaeological Knowledge

This paper offers a summary of our present archaeological knowledge of the modern county of Norfolk, a large and geographically diverse tract of northern East Anglia, during the 5th–2nd millennia BC. It concludes by listing some topics deserving of future research.

A Late Bronze Age Find near Stuntney, Isle of Ely

1940 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. D. Clark ◽  
H. Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Made In

For more than seven years the Fenland Research Committee has been investigating the post-glacial history of the Fenland with a view to correlating archaeological remains and recent geological deposits. By this means evidence has been collected which bears upon the age of early phases of human settlement in East Anglia and upon the natural conditions prevailing at different periods. It has sometimes been possible to undertake systematic and purposive excavations at key sites in the confident anticipation of definite results, but stray finds made in the course of drainage works or of agriculture have also played an important part. The Stuntney hoard, which it is the primary purpose of this report to record, was discovered by a man ploughing near Stuntney Hall in January 1939.

scholarly journals 3. Two Late Bronze Age Urns from East Anglia.

Man ◽  
1919 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
J. Reid Moir
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
East Anglia

A Claudian Site at Needham, Norfolk

1941 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheppard Frere
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The South ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Gravel Pit ◽  
The Village

Needham lies on the Norfolk side of the Waveney valley, not far west of Harleston. East of the village is the large gravel pit owned by Mr. H. Dean which has revealed the site (fig. 1) here to be described. This pit has already produced a Bronze Age food vessel, and is known as the site of a microlithic industry and of a first- and second-century Romano-British village. Commercial working has laid bare from time to time dark pits and ditches on the surface of the gravel, which have yielded the normal debris of the Romano-British peasant settlement. One of these ditches, however, lying to the south of the area of later occupation, has yielded remains of the Claudian period which throw considerable light upon the manner and date of the earliest attempt to romanize East Anglia.

Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bevan
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Bronze Age

Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Cosmopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Eleusinian Mysteries
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