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Inscribing space: formal deposition at the later Neolithic monument of Woodhenge, Wiltshire
No full textThis paper presents evidence for intentionally structured deposition at the later Neolithic earthwork and timber setting of Woodhenge, near Amesbury, Wiltshire. Deposition is seen as a process through which a variety of connotations and symbolic references were incorporated in the monument, in addition to contributing towards a complex classification of space that served to order ceremonial and ritual practices. The evidence for formal deposition is also considered in the context of comparable, contemporary, activity at two other extensively excavated monuments in the region — Durrington Walls and Stonehenge I. Finally, complementarity and contrast in such special practices are viewed in relation to individual monument histories and the possibility that, whilst the product of a general sacred tradition, the way in which each of the monuments was used was structured by different sets of meanings
Iron Age riverside pit alignments at St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
No full textExcavations at a deeply alluviated site near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, revealed a complex sequence of boundary works of later prehistoric and Roman date running along the edge of a former course of the river Great Ouse. The most significant of these were two successive pit alignments constructed in the early-mid 1st millennium BC. One alignment ran along the very edge of the channel and was waterlogged over much of its length; upon excavation producing a rich assemblage of worked wood, including hedging debris. Broader discussion on the social context of pit alignments as boundary systems is offered
Review: Cult in Context: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology, edited by David A. Barrowclough & Caroline Malone, 2007. Oxford: Oxbow Books; ISBN 978-1-84217-303-9 hardback £45 & US$90; xvi+352 pp., 8 col. pls., 181 figs., 15 tables
No full textReview: ’The Remains of Distant Times’: archaeology and the National Trust. David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway & David Thackray (Eds). Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85115–671–1, hb, 235 pp., £29.50
No full textThe Ring-Ditch and the Hollow: The excavation of a Bronze Age ‘shrine’ and associated features at Pampisford, Cambridgeshire
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Review: The Avebury Cycle, Michael Dames, London, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2nd edition (revised), ISBN 0–500–27886–5, 240 pp, 201 illus., £10.95 ($16.95), pb
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