Green Knowe unenclosed platform settlement and Harehope cairn, Peeblesshire

Jobey, George

doi:10.9750/psas.110.72.113

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“…The sheer number of unenclosed settlements visible as surface remains (with several hundred across the Cheviot Hills), however, suggests a period of dense settlement, and many must have been contemporaneous based on numbers alone. Moreover, the available archaeological evidence indicates that most investigated settlements are multi-phase, as at Green Knowe (Jobey 1979), Houseledge West (Burgess 1985) and Hallshill (Gates 2009).…”

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Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications

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Terracing is found widely in the Mediterranean and in other hilly and mountainous regions of the world. Yet while archaeological attention to these ‘mundane’ landscape features has grown, they remain understudied, particularly in Northern Europe. Here, the authors present a multidisciplinary study of terraces in the Breamish Valley, Northumberland. The results date their construction to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, when they were built by cutting back the hillside, stone clearance and wall construction. Environmental evidence points to their use for cereal cultivation. The authors suggest that the construction and use of these terraces formed part of an Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural intensification, which may have been both demographically and culturally driven.

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“…2021b)—and, consequently, they may vary in their profiles or cross-sections. Terraces are sometimes related to other structures, particularly house platforms (Jobey 1979; Brown et al 2021b), and the construction of wider field systems may be linked to stone clearance and land demarcation (Bradley 1978).…”

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Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications

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“…These arguments would tend to suggest that West Water was a relatively short-lived cemetery for a small community, perhaps representing no more than a generation or two before the focus of burial shifted, arguably to cremation in cists in Area F. Unlike sites such as the cairns on North Muir, some 2 km away (RCAHMS 1967, nos 46-8), the cemetery did not develop architectural form; nor apparently did it remain the focus of burial over generations, like Harehope, Peeblesshire (Jobey 1980). This emphasizes once more the variety in Bronze Age burials, with the creation of a cairn by no means the norm (Barnatt 1996, 49).…”

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Excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery and other sites a the West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Scottish Borders

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Davis³

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An Early Bronze Age flat cist cemetery was excavated after it was exposed by reservoir erosion. Nine surviving cists were found, containing a mixture of inhumations and cremations. Grave goods included food vessels and a unique cannel coal and lead necklace. Where skeletal remains survived, most of the deceased were sub-adult or young adults. Evidence of floral tributes was found in three burials. A number of other features, one containing Beaker sherds, may be connected to rituals taking place at the site. In addition a number of less coherent sites were excavated elsewhere around the reservoir. Discussion attempts to place the cemetery within its wider Bronze Age context, considering aspects such as the deliberate infilling of burials and the interpretation of grave goods. Includes separately authored reports on:

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“…Clearly, this sort of pottery is not sensitive to fine chronological definition, but there are now several assemblages from eastern Scotland associated with late second/early first-millennium radiocarbon dates. Principally, these are from Green Knowe, Peeblesshire (Jobey 1980) and Myrehead (Barclay 1983). At both sites there are thick-walled vessels with large grits, the most distinctive vessels (one from Myrehead and three from Green Knowe) bearing shallow grooves beneath the rim; similar features are present on a vessel from the undated hut-circle site at Dalnaglar, Perthshire (Stewart 1962), and a midden on the Culbin Sands, Moray, the latter probably associated with a single radiocarbon date of 1259±75 be (Coles & Taylor 1970).…”

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confidence: 99%