Multi-period Occupation at Football Field, Worth Matravers, Dorset: Excavations 2006–2011: Excavations 2006–2011

"This book presents the detailed results of excavations at a small multi-period site in south-east Dorset. The site provided evidence for an Early Neolithic enclosure, a timber-framed, Late Bronze Age roundhouse, Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age middening activities, Iron Age and Roman settlement and a post-Roman inhumation cemetery. The midden and its associated features and finds are of particular significance, with evidence for deposition and accumulation over several centuries. Other important features include: a Late Iron Age stone-lined pit containing over 100 near-complete pots and a substantial quantity of animal bone, suggesting a large-scale communal gathering and feasting activity; a Roman barn, used as a shale workshop and as a burial place for infants; a 6th- to 8th-century AD cemetery of single, double and triple graves, illuminating the nature of change in burial practices in Dorset at this time; and significant pottery and animal bone assemblages, particularly from the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age and Late Iron Age."--Back cover (page 4 of cover) Front Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of Tables Summary Résumé Zusammenfassung 1. Environment and Project Background 2. The Neolithic, Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age Periods 3. The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Transition 4. The Middle and Late Iron Age 5. The Romano-British Period 6. The Post-Roman Burials 7. Flaked Stone, Worked Stone and Kimmeridge Shale 8. The Early Prehistoric Pottery 9. The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Pottery 10. The Middle Iron Age, Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery 11. Finds of Metal, Slag, Glass, Fired Clay and Worked Bone 12. Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Modelling of the Post-Roman Cemetery 13. The Human Remains 14. The Faunal Remains 15. The Environmental Remains 16. Interpretation and Discussion Bibliography