Building memories : : the Neolithic Cotswold long barrow at Ascott-Under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire / / edited by Don Benson and Alasdair Whittle ; with contributions by Alistair Barclay [and twenty-seven others] ; and illustrations by Ian Dennis.

• Superior document: Cardiff studies in archaeology, for English heritage
• TeilnehmendeR: Benson, Don, 1933-; Whittle, A. W. R.,; Barclay, Alistair,; Dennis, I. 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxbow Books,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; French; German
• Series: Cardiff studies in archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 379 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations, maps.

It is just over forty years since the start of the excavations of the Ascott-under-Wychwood long barrow (1965-69) under the direction of Don Benson. The excavations belonged to the latter part of a great period of barrow digging in southern Britain, which was ending just as, by striking contrast, intensified investigation and fieldwork at causewayed enclosures were beginning. Although a long gap has passed since the excavations took place, they have nonetheless produced a rich and important set of results, and the analysis has been enhanced by more recent techniques. The site now joins Burn Ground and Hazleton North as one of only three Cotswold long barrows or cairns to have been more or less fully excavated. The authors of this report not only document the finds and research, but also address wider questions of how the early Neolithic inhabitants viewed their society through the barrow, and how the development of the site reflected memory and interaction with a changing world.

Table of Contents

The excavations of 1965-1969 / by Don Benson, ... Fiona Roe -- The pre-barrow contexts / by Leslie McFadyen, Don Benson and Alasdair Whittle -- The environmental setting / by John G. Evans, Susan Limbrey and Richard Macphail -- The long barrow / by Leslie McFadyen, Don Benson and Alasdair Whittle -- The layout, composition and sequence of the human bone deposits / by Alasdair Whittle ... [et al.] -- The human remains / by Dawn Galer, ... Christopher Knüsel -- Interpreting chronology : the radiocarbon dating process / by Alex Bayliss ... [et al.] -- The animal bones / by Jacqui Mulville and Caroline Grigson -- Carbon and stable isotope compositions of animal and human bone / by Robert E.M. Hedges, Rhiannon E. Stevens and Jessica A. Pearson -- The early Neolithic pottery and fired clay / by Alistair Barclay ... [et al.] -- Organic residue analysis / by Mark S. Copley and Richard P. Evershed -- The flint / by Kate Cramp ; with Humphrey Case and Kevin Nimmo -- The worked stone objects / by Fiona Roe -- Post-Neolithic finds / by Edward Biddulph, Peter Guest and William Manning -- Place and time : building and remembrance / by Alasdair Whittle ... [et al.].