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A 3rd century AD cremation cemetery at Franklands Drive, near Addlestone
Archaeological investigations on an open field site to the south-west of Addlestone revealed two foci of Middle-Late Bronze Age activity that involved the setting of pottery vessels in pits. A lone Late Iron Age unurned cremation burial was accompanied by an unusual North Gaulish Gallo-Belgic facet-cut barrel beaker, dated to...Howell, Isca J. ; Henderson, Michael
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Mesolithic, Iron Age and Saxon findings from excavations at Esher Park Avenue, Esher
An archaeological excavation at Esher Park Avenue, Esher revealed a 0.40m-thick layer of sand that produced some 1522 Early Mesolithic flints, including microlithic flint points, microburins and at least four core adze fragments and a scraper (c 9.3-9.0 ka BP). The flint assemblage suggests the presence of a discrete short-stay...Saxby, Dave
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Whither archaeologists? Continuing challenges to field practice
Current archaeological practice in the UK and elsewhere focuses on the collection of empirical data. While scholars have proposed theoretical advances in field techniques, very few of these methods have been adopted in commercial archaeology. A combination of increased time pressure on development projects and the conservatism of the sector...Watson, Sadie
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Prehistoric ploughing and post-medieval occupation at 7-9 Holland Street, Bankside, Southwark
In the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age the Holland Street site occupied a Thames flood plain eyot surrounded by tidal channels. It was fertile, well-drained, farmed land and fieldwork recovered ard marks, cut features, pottery and evidence of on-site flint working. In the later prehistoric period, the eyot became inundated...Saxby, Dave ; Francis, Antony
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Excavations at 78 Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames, 2016-17
An archaeological excavation took place at 78 Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames on the site formerly occupied by an 18th century Friends’ Meeting House that had been demolished in 2016, and an associated burial ground from which the burials had been exhumed. The excavation revealed evidence for a single Saxon...Good, O.
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The Prittlewell princely burial: excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003
This internationally important, late 6th-century AD princely burial was discovered in 2003 at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, within an existing early Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Detailed research, scientific analyses and investigative conservation since have produced exciting new information, enabling the reconstruction of the large wooden chamber grave and the coffin of a man...Blackmore, Lyn ; Blair, Ian ; Hirst, Sue ; Scull, Christopher
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A Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Andover Airfield, Penton Mewsey, near Weyhill, Hampshire: excavations 2007-10
Archaeological excavation by MOLA on a chalk downland site near Andover revealed funerary activity from the Chalcolithic (‘Beaker’) period to the Late Bronze Age. A single inhumation became the focus for later cremation burials; these were succeeded by two isolated barrows and a barrow cemetery, which in turn attracted further...Howell, Isca
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The Anglo-Saxon princely burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea
This fully illustrated account of the princely burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, summarises the results of intensive research, studying the excavated evidence from the intact and lavishly furnished burial chamber. The man who was buried there at the end of the 6th century AD was evidently a Christian but accompanied...Blackmore, Lyn ; Blair, Ian ; Hirst, Sue ; Scull, Christopher