Prehistoric Publications
Cornwall
Smith, G, with 8 contributors, 1996, Archaeology and Environment of a Bronze Age Cairn and Prehistoric and Romano-British Field System at Chysauster, Guval, near Penzance, Cornwall, Proc Prehist Soc, 62, 167-219
The survey and selective excavation of an area of field system adjoining Chysauster, supported by soil and pollen studies. The earliest field-system dates to the 2nd millenium BC with substantial later modification resulting from more intensive Iron Age and Romano-British agriculture, as well as some medieval and post-medieval re-use. A number of cremation burials were found in the cairn.Derbyshire
Collis, J, 1996, A Bronze Age Barrow in Hognaston, Derbyshire, Barrows in the Peak District: Recent Research 137-170
Excavation of a Bronze Age Barrow which produced closely dated evidence for the early environment of an area of marginal land adjacent to the Carboniferous Limestone of the White Peak.Lancashire
Howard-Davis, C, with 5 contributors, 1996, Seeing the Sites: Survey and Excavation on the Anglezarke Uplands, Lancashire, Proc Prehist Soc, 61, 133-166
Field survey of Anglezarke included detailed investigation of two sites: a Bronze Age cairn, and an early Mesolithic flint scatter. The survey demonstrated human activity on the upland throughout the prehistoric period and also emphasised the heavy post-medieval exploitation of the moorland.Lincolnshire
May, J, with 54 contributors, 1996, Dragonby: Report on Excavations at an Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in North Lincolnshire, Oxbow Mono, 61
Area excavation of c1hectare of extensive nucleated settlement comprising ditched enclosures, an irregular street pattern, wooden round houses in the Iron Age, and rectangular aisled buildings with stone footings in the Roman period. Evidence was recorded for agriculture, stock-keeping, craft or industrial activities, and trade. The main occupation began well before 100 BC and continued to the 4th century AD or later, and the results help to establish a cultural sequence for the Iron Age of the East Midlands.London
Cotton, J, 1996, with 6 contributors, Excavations and observations of a Bronze Age cemetery and Roman site in Avenue Gardens, Acton, Middlesex 1882 and 1981-5, Trans London Middlesex Archaeol Soc, 44, 1-22
Excavation of three trenches followed by a watching-brief, located four phases of truncated features dating from the later prehistoric to the post-medieval periods. A substantial portion of a Bronze Age bucket urn was recovered (in 1985), and two periods of Roman activity, comprising ditches and pits, were dated to early/mid 2nd and late 3rd - 4th centuries AD. The report concludes with a discussion and re-evaluation of the cemetery using documentary evidence of its late 19th century discovery.Norfolk
Wymer, J J, with 7 contributors, 1996, Barrow Excavations in Norfolk 1984-88, E Anglian Archaeol Rep, 77
Report on four excavations in Norfolk: a Round Barrow at Bawsey, near King's Lynn, Neolithic and Bronze Age activity and settlement at Longham and Beeston with Bittering, a Ring-Ditch at Lyng Easthaugh, and the excavation of a Ring-Ditch at South Acre.Northamptonshire
Jackson, D, with 5 contributors, 1996, Archaeology at Grendon Quarry, Northamptonshire, Part 2: Other prehistoric, Iron Age and later sites excavated in 1974-75 anf further observations between 1976-80, Northamptonshire Archaeol, 26, 3-32
Gravel quarry excavations and watching brief revealed an Iron Age enclosure and three pottery kilns (which are described in detail), and the location of 3 ring- ditches and 4 Bronze Age vessels, a complex of pit alingments, a pre-medieval agricultural system, 4 Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured structures, as well as evidence for iron-working.West Sussex
see also Bedwin, O, Roman
Yorkshire
Cardwell, P, and Speed, G, with 4 contributors, 1996, Prehistoric Occupation at St Giles by Brompton Bridge, North Yorkshire, Durham Archaeol J, 12, 27-40
Excavations revealed a thin charcoal-layer radiocarbon dated to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Later Iron Age deposits of pottery were also recovered.
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