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Characterisation of Deverel-Rimbury Pottery from Cranbourne Chase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

John Barrett ,
Richard Bradley ,
Rosamund Cleal  and
Herbert Pike
John Barrett
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Education, University of Leeds
Herbert Pike
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
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Pitt Rivers' excavations in Cranbourne Chase not only provided his successors with a lavish series of reports but also with a remarkable body of artefacts. These finds are now housed in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. The research programme which is centred upon the re-excavation of South Lodge Camp will include a new assessment of the Bronze Age material in this collection. This work discussed here is the first stage in this project (cf. Barrett and Bradley 1978).

The Bronze Age sites investigated by the General include the well known enclosures of South Lodge Camp, Martin Down and the Angle Ditch, as well as a series of round barrows (Pitt Rivers 1888 and 1898). These excavations were extensive. The enclosures were trenched across much of the interior, the ditches were emptied and substantial parts of the surrounding banks were removed. Large scale excavation was also undertaken on many of the barrows, although the first mounds to be dug were examined by a single trench or by a central shaft. These earlier barrow excavations were among the first to be undertaken by Pitt Rivers on his Wessex estates.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 44 , December 1978 , pp. 135 - 142
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1978

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