Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Time and place

1.1 The archaeology of social reproduction

1.2 The study area

1.3 The development of fieldwork in the study area

1.4 The development of the landscape in the study area

Part I: The dead and the living

2: The Earlier Neolithic

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The nature of the evidence. Gardiner

2.3 The Mesolithic background

2.4 The Earlier Neolithic: the evidence of domestic activity

The flint industries in the study area

The ceramic evidence

The results of excavation

Discussion

2.5 The evidence of earthwork monuments

Introduction

The character of the Dorset Cursus complex

Structural details of the long barrows

Structural details of the Dorset Cursus

The relationship of the long barrows to the Cursus

The date of the Dorset Cursus complex

Concluding discussion

3: The Later Neolithic

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The evidence of domestic activity

Introduction

The flint industries of the study area

The ceramic evidence

3.3 The evidence of domestic activity: the results of excavation

The Peterborough Ware-associated site at Chalkpit Field

The context of the Later Neolithic artefacts

The artefact assemblage

Spatial analysis: the lithic scatter and the Cursus

Discussion

The Grooved Ware-associated site at Firtree Field

The excavated features

Spatial analysis: the pits and the Cursus

The interpretation of the excavated features

3.4 The evidence of earthwork monuments

Introduction

Structural details of the round barrows: the Wor Barrow complex

Introduction

Handley Barrow 26

Handley Barrow 27

Synthesis and discussion

Structural details of the round barrows: the excavation of a Neolithic ring ditch in Firtree Field

Introduction

The excavated features

Dating evidence

Structural details of the round barrows: the evidence of aerial photography

General discussion of the round barrows

Henge monuments: the excavations on Wyke Down

Introduction

The excavated features

The excavated material and its distribution

Discussion

3.5 Synthesis

4: The Early Bronze

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The artefact sequences

Introduction

The flint industries in the study area

The ceramic sequence

The metal work

4.3 The domestic sites: the results of excavation

Handley Hill and Martin Down

South Lodge Camp

Firtree Field

Conclusion

4.4 Mortuary archaeology

Introduction

Ancestor and funerary rituals: the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age transition

Early Bronze Age mortuary archaeology

Excavation of the Down Farm pond barrow.

The burials and their contexts

The animal burials

Discussion,

4.5 Conclusion

Part II: The living and the dead

5: The Middle Bronze

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The excavations: South Lodge enclosure, cemetery and field system

Introduction

The field

The fields and the cemetery

The fields and the enclosure

Additional sections

Later activity

Summary

Early domestic occupation

The enclosure

The ditch

The bank

The entrance(s)

The interior

The finds

The barrow cemetery

Introduction

Barrows 2, 3 and 21

Barrow 4

The snail fauna from BPG and BPH.

The destroyed mound

Barrow 18

Additional finds

South Lodge: the chronological sequence

5.3 The excavations: Down Farm enclosure and cemetery

Introduction

The enclosure

Stratigraphic information

The structural sequence

The finds

Down Farm enclosure: the chronological sequence

Down Farm ring ditch cemetery

Discussion

5.4 The Pitt Rivers archive

Introduction

Handley Barrow 24

The cremated bone

The organisation of the cemetery

The Angle Ditch and Martin Down enclosures

The nature of the record

The nature and history of the enclosures

5.5 Middle Bronze Age chronology

5.6 Synthesis. John C. Barrett

6: The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age

6.1 Introduction. John C Barrett

6.2 Chronology. John C. Barrett, Brendan O'Connor

6.3 Later first millennium settlement morphology

The Gussage Hill/Thickthorn Down complex

6.4 Synthesis. John C Barrett, Mark Corney

References

Index