The Hinxton Rings – A Late Iron Age Cemetery at Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, with a Reconsideration of Northern Aylesford-Swarling distributions

Hill, J. D.; Evans, Christopher; Alexander, Mary; Eden, Caroline; Shell, Colin

doi:10.1017/s0079497x00002012

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“…43 Zone 8 also corresponds with a cluster of small Late Iron Age enclosures, interpreted as defensive, in many of which later kilns were set up; see Dix and Jackson 1989. 44 Also see Hill et al 1999 The explanation proposed here is that Greenhouse Farm may have hosted seasonal, communal gatherings (rather like medieval or modern fairs) for any number of diverse purposes (e.g. marriage, exchange), but which also included the production and distribution of pottery.…”

Section: The Siting Of the Kilnsmentioning

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Pre-Flavian Kilns at Greenhouse Farm and the Social Context of Early Roman Pottery Production in Cambridgeshire

Gibson¹,

Lucas²

2002

Britannia

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The Claudio-Neronian kilns at Greenhouse Farm are one of the few extensively excavated pottery production sites of this period in Cambridgeshire. The analysis presented in this paper attempts to do justice to this fact as well as touching on some broader themes; divided in two parts, the first discusses the site, kilns and pottery production, the second tackles the broader issue of early (i.e. pre-Flavian) pottery production in the region. Apart from the military kilns associated with Longthorpe in Peterborough, the only other comparable site of this date in the county is that at War Ditches, Cherry Hinton, which lies only 3.5 km south of Greenhouse Farm and at which several phases of salvage work were undertaken as the site was gradually quarried away early in the last century. On a smaller scale, recent excavations at Blackhorse Lane, Swavesey have found two kilns of a similar date, while another first-century kiln was found in the 1950s at Water Newton.

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Section: The Siting Of the Kilnsmentioning

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Pre-Flavian Kilns at Greenhouse Farm and the Social Context of Early Roman Pottery Production in Cambridgeshire

Gibson¹,

Lucas²

2002

Britannia

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“…27 For different uses of the evidence of coin see De Jersey 2001 andCreighton 2000, 74-5. 28 These are the archaeological correlates -in particular pottery use and burial practice -that have been used to describe distributions of the Aylesford-Swarling cultural package: see Hill et al 1999; see also Pitts 2005a. This polity equates with the core zone in Haselgrove's (1982) classic attempt to describe the cultural and political changes evident in pre-conquest Britain in terms of a dialogue between a 'Romanising' core and a native periphery.…”

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The Making of Britain's First Urban Landscapes: The Case of Late Iron Age and Roman Essex

Pitts¹,

Perring²

2006

Britannia

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This paper presents preliminary research into the social and economic impact of early urban settlement in Britain, focusing on the case-study area of Late Iron Age to Roman Essex. Through fresh analysis of ceramic assemblages from Colchester and Heybridge, we describe hitherto unrecognised socio-cultural groupings and identities through subtle differences in the deposition of pottery in the generations before and after conquest. The concluding discussion concentrates on problems that we still have to address in describing the economic basis of early urban society in Britain.

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“…54.Marked by the extent of frequent wheel-thrown pottery, cremation cemeteries and imports, and interpreted as evincing close contact with the Continent; see, eg, Hill et al 1999.…”

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Delivering Bodies unto Waters: A Late Bronze Age Mid-Stream Midden Settlement and Iron Age Ritual Complex in the Fens

Evans¹

2013

Antiq. J.

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This paper describes a Late Bronze Age midden settlement and a later Iron Age ritual complex on Godwin Ridge, a sand ridge that formerly lay mid-stream within the lower reaches of the River Great Ouse, in the Cambridgeshire fens. Numerous ritual deposits and significant quantities of human remains were recovered; some of the latter show signs of having been modified or dismembered. The ritual focus of the ridge was a riverside platform; associated with this was an important assemblage of wetland bird bone. The paper explores the implications of these practices and compares the finds to those from neighbouring and regional later prehistoric settlements, including those with major bird bone assemblages. The ridge-end's findings clearly resonate with human remains retrieved from other watery contexts, such as those associated with the River Thames. The evidence suggests that Godwin Ridge was, during the later Iron Age, a major site for mortuary rites involving riverine interment.

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The Hinxton Rings – A Late Iron Age Cemetery at Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, with a Reconsideration of Northern Aylesford-Swarling distributions

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Pre-Flavian Kilns at Greenhouse Farm and the Social Context of Early Roman Pottery Production in Cambridgeshire

Pre-Flavian Kilns at Greenhouse Farm and the Social Context of Early Roman Pottery Production in Cambridgeshire

The Making of Britain's First Urban Landscapes: The Case of Late Iron Age and Roman Essex

Delivering Bodies unto Waters: A Late Bronze Age Mid-Stream Midden Settlement and Iron Age Ritual Complex in the Fens

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