Prehistoric
Staffordshire
Welch, C, 1995 A Bronze Age burnt mound at Milwich, Trans Staffordshire Archaeol Hist Soc, 46, 1-15
Excavations in 1991 of a deposit of heat-cracked stone and charcoal revealed by stream erosion in the bank of the Milwich Brook. It is one of 18 such sites known in the county and lies about 15km north of the major concentration around Cannock Chase. During the course of the project the opportunity was taken to survey two further sites and these are also discussed.
West Sussex
Roberts, M, Parfitt, S, Pope, M, and Wenban-Smith, F, 1997 Boxgrove, West Sussex: rescue excavations of a lower Palaeolithic landsurface, Proc Prehist Soc, 63, 303-58
Results of excavations in 1990 and 1991 at Quarry 2/C and Quarry 2/D respectively. The excavations concentrated on the main Pleistocene landsurface (Unit 4c) and revealed spreads of knapping debris associated with the production of flint handaxes. Two test pits and area Q2/C produced handaxes, over 90% of which had tranchet sharpening at the distal end. A small amount of core reduction and only a few flake tools were found: these were all from Quarry 2/C. Faunal remains were located in the northern part of the excavations, where Unit 4c had a calcareous cover. In Quarry 2/C the bones of C. elaphus and Bison sp exhibited traces of human modification.
Wiltshire
Cunliffe, B, and Renfrew, C, 1997 Science and Stonehenge, Proc Brit Acad, 92
The results of a conference held in March 1996, divided into 15 articles, including contributions from archaeologists, environmentalists, engineers, astronomers, and geologists in a continuing debate of our understanding of the prehistoric monument and new programmes of scientific research for Stonehenge and its environment.
Whittle, A, 1997, Sacred mound, holy rings: Silbury Hill and the West Kennet palisade enclosures: a later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire, Oxbow Monogr, 74,Oxford
This report provides a full account of the excavations undertaken in 1968 70 and discusses the archaeological and environmental evidence from the tunnel, the ditch section, the cuttings from the top of the mound, and the radiocarbon dates. Neolithic enclosures at nearby West Kennet have been the subject of research excavations since 1987: one is a nearly circular double enclosure that straddles the present Kennet, the other is a larger elliptical enclosure. The character of the palisades, their construction, the finds, and the radiocarbon dates are fully reported. The descriptions are followed by an extensive discussion of the interpretation of Silbury Hill and the enclosures, their relationship to one another and to the other features of the Neolithic landscape: the Sanctuary, the West Kennet Avenue, and Avebury itself.
Yorkshire
Parker-Pearson, M, and Sydes, R, 1997 The iron age enclosures and prehistoric landscape of Sutton Common, South Yorkshire, Proc Prehist Soc, 63, 221-59
Investigations between 1987 and 1993 revealed a timber palisaded enclosure and a succeeding multivallate enclosure linked to a smaller enclosure by a timber alignment across a palaeochannel, with associated finds ranging in date from the Middle Bronze Age to the Roman and medieval periods. Among the four adjacent archaeological sites is an early Mesolithic occupation site, also with organic preservation, and there is a Late Neolithic site beneath the large enclosure.