Late Bronze Age and Iron Age

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1. vowen2 says:

   November 20, 2018 at 6:49 pm

   Organisation
   Trent & Peak Archaeology
   Site/Project Name
   Prehistoric pottery production in Charnwood Forest
   County/Unitary Authority
   Derbys, Leics, Northants, Notts
   NGR
   n/a
   HER No
   n/a
   OASIS ID
   To be assigned
   Report and Web Link
   Knight, D, Faber, E, Carney, J, Marsden, P and Henderson, J 2016 Prehistoric Pottery Production in Charnwood Forest. Report for Historic England. ADS web link to be finalised
   Agenda Topic(s)

   4.9.3 What can we determine from artefact studies about trade and exchange and the role of coinage?
   Research Objective(s)

   4G Study the production, distribution and use of artefacts
   How has this work addressed the Research Agenda and Strategy?

   Petrographic and electron microprobe analyses of granoitoid-tempered prehistoric pottery from sites across the East Midlands have shown the igneous and metamorphic inclusions in these vessels to derive from a wide range of tightly defined sources, including Mountsorrel Complex granodiorite and South Leicestershire quartz diorites deriving from outcrops at Enderby Warren, Stoney Cove and Coal Pit Lane, Enderby. Analyses of the potting clays suggest that local clays, particularly from alluvial sources, were utilised during pottery manufacture, but sources cannot yet be located precisely.

   This work has demonstrated convincingly the incorporation of temper derived from igneous or metamorphic rock outcrops in Charnwood Forest from the Early Neolithic to Late Iron Age (most likely from weathered screes) and has added significantly to our understanding of the development of exchange systems during prehistory. Significant differences may be discerned in the patterns of production and distribution over time, shedding significant light upon changes in the exchange networks that linked settlements during the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age periods.

   The work has thereby addressed Research Objective 4G ‘Study the production, distribution and use of artefacts’ which specifically calls for the application of petrographic and other scientific analyses to ‘elucidate the production and distribution of artefacts that may be tied to specific raw material sources’. It also addresses Research Agenda Topic 4.9.3 ‘What can we determine from artefact studies about trade and exchange and the role of coinage?’, specifically in terms of the trade and exchange of the raw materials used in pottery production.

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2. vowen2 says:

   November 20, 2018 at 6:49 pm

   Organisation
   Trent & Peak Archaeology
   Site/Project Name
   Woodborough, Fox Wood Camp
   Parish
   Woodborough
   County/Unitary Authority
   Nottinghamshire
   NGR
   SK 613 483
   Agenda Topic(s)

   4.5.3 How may nucleated and other settlements have developed in the Roman period?
   Research Objective(s)

   4D Assess the regional resource of hillforts and analogous sites
   How has this work addressed the Research Agenda and Strategy?

   Recent work at the presumed hillfort/military camp site at Fox Wood, Woodborough has found evidence of both Late Iron Age and Romano-British domestic activity and has prompted a reconsideration of the interpretation of the Scheduled earthwork (List entry no.: 1006398). The evidence suggests the establishment of the enclosure in the late Iron Age with continued occupation into the Roman period, although this remains to be confirmed by scientific dating. Results will be reported in a forthcoming issue of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire

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