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1 online resource |
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"Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; two pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age elsewhere in southern Britain"--From publisher's website. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Summary; Résumé; Zusammenfassung; Section 1: Background; 1. Introduction; Section 2: Deconstructing and reconstructing the cist; 2. Results from the 2011 fieldwork; 3. The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts; 4. The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cist; 5. The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse Hill; Section 3: Assembling the burial; 6. The human remains; 7. The wood charcoal; 8. The charred textiles from the cremation deposit; 9. The matted plant material from the base of the cist |
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10. The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samplesSection 4: Items with the young adult; 11. The animal pelt; 12. The copper-alloy pin; 13. The basketry container; 14. The composite braided hair armband or bracelet; 15. The composite necklace; 16. The wooden studs; 17. The flint; 18. The textile and animal-skin object; Section 5: The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape context; 19. The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist; Section 6: The radiocarbon dating; 20. Interpreting the chronology of the cist |
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Section 7: Discussion, interpretation and conclusions21. The results from the project; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Index |
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Bronze age -- England -- Dartmoor.
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Bronze age. |
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England -- Dartmoor. |
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Prehistoric peoples -- England -- Dartmoor.
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Prehistoric peoples. |
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Burial -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500.
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Burial. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Grave goods -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500.
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Grave goods. |
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Material culture -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500.
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Material culture. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Dartmoor.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Peat -- England -- Dartmoor.
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Peat. |
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Dartmoor (England) -- Antiquities.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Jones, Andy M., author. Preserved in the peat Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016 9781785702600 (DLC) 2016019904 |
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9781785702631 (electronic book) |
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1785702637 (electronic book) |
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9781785702617 (electronic book) |
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1785702610 (electronic book) |
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9781785702624 |
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1785702629 |
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9781785702600 (hardcover) |
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