Middle Bronze Age and Roman Settlement at Manor Pit, Baston, Lincolnshire: Excavations 2002-2014

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Project background
Location, topography and geology
Cropmarks and archaeological excavations
Previous site investigations within Baston Manor Pit
Excavation areas 2006-2014
Methodology
Site phasing

Chapter 2 Archaeological results
Period 1, earlier prehistoric activity
Period 2, early to middle Bronze Age
Period 3, Roman settlement and boundary (2nd to 4th centuries)
Period 4, medieval and post-medieval land use
Undated features

Chapter 3 Finds
Worked flint – Yvonne Wolframm-Murray
Prehistoric pottery – Sarah Percival
Roman pottery – Margaret Darling, Ian Rowlandson and H G Fiske with samian reports by Felicity C Wild and Gwladys Monteil
Writing on pottery vessels – R S O Tomlin
Medieval and post-medieval pottery – Paul Blinkhorn
Coins – Ian Meadows and Paul Clements
Small finds - Tora Hylton with a report on a Bronze Age knife by Matthew G Knight
Middle Bronze Age loomweights – Pat Chapman
Querns – Andy Chapman
Slag – Andy Chapman
Ceramic tile and brick – Pat Chapman
Stone – Pat Chapman
Fired clay – Pat Chapman
Roman glass – Claire Finn
Worked wood – Michael Bamford with identifications to taxa by Steve Allen
Radiocarbon dates – Rob Atkins

Chapter 4 Environmental evidence and human and faunal remains
Human skeletal remains – Helen Webb and Chris Chinnock
The mammal, bird and amphibian bones – Philip L Armitage
Environmental evidence from the southern excavation area and the far western part of the northern excavation area (BMP06-08) – Enid Allison, Lucy Allott, Robert Batchelor, Alex Brown and John Giorgi
Environmental evidence from the northern excavation area (BMP09-14) – Val Fryer

Chapter 5 Discussion
Period 1: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
Period 2.1 Early Bronze Age
Period 2.2 Middle Bronze Age
Period 3: Roman
Period 4: Medieval
Period 5: Post-medieval

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