Excavations at Kilverstone, Norfolk: An Episodic Landscape History

by Duncan Garrow, Sam Lucy, and David Gibson

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Excavations by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit near Kilverstone revealed an occupation sequence spanning the Neolithic to the post-medieval periods. Extensive Early Neolithic activity was evidenced by 236 clustered pits containing quantities of pottery, worked and burnt flint, charred hazelnuts and seeds and other material. The site is of national importance, with the number of pits discovered placing it alongside the type-sites of Hurst Fen and Broome Heath. A smaller number of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pits, along with six cremations and a Middle Iron Age structure, attests to intermittent further activity. In the mid 1st century BC a settlement...Read more
  • ISBN10 0954482425
  • ISBN13 9780954482428
  • Publish Date 31 December 2006
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 March 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cambridge Archaeological Unit
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 257
  • Language English