Archaeological Investigations of a Later Prehistoric and a Romano-British Landscape at Tremough, Penryn, CornwallThis volume reports on excavations conducted in advance of the construction of a campus of Cornwall University. In addition to the expected linear field systems and Romano-British settlement activity, Early and Later Neolithic pits were uncovered as well as 5 circular post-ring structures and other features dating to Early to Middle Bronze Age. With contributions by Paul Bidwell, Wendy Carruthers, Rowena Gale, Anna Lawson-Jones, Joanna Mattingly, Henrietta Quinnell, Roger Taylor, Carl Thorpe and Rachel Tyson |
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
The Bronze Age c 22001000 cal | 11 |
Later Iron Age and RomanoBritish period c 350 cal BCAD 400 | 22 |
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abraded activity archaeological artefacts assemblage associated beach cobble bowl Bronze Age Structure burnt cal BC ceramics charcoal charred plant contained contexts cordon Cornish Cornish Archaeol Cornwall Corylus avellana decoration deposition Durrington Walls Early Bronze Age Early Neolithic emmer enclosure ditch evidence fabric field system flake flint forthcoming fragments gabbro glume base granite Grooved Ware hazel hazelnut shell hearth-pit identified indicate Iron Age Jones Later Iron Age Later Neolithic Lawson-Jones material medieval Middle Bronze Age Neolithic Neolithic pits Nowakowski old land surface pebble Phase 1 excavations pit filled pit group possible Posthole filled pottery prehistoric probably produced quern Quinnell radiocarbon dating radiocarbon determination recovered Roman period Romano-British Romano-British period round roundhouse roundwood samples second century seed settlement sherds silty clay spelt stakeholes standard gabbroic Stannon Stencoose stone Structure 338 Structure 66 suggests Thin-section Tremough Trethellan Trethurgy Trevisker Trevisker-related pottery tubers unstratified vessels