Later Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

• Author: Jones, Andy M.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kirkham, Graeme.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 pages)

Later prehistoric settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scillyreports on the excavation between 1996 and 2014 of five later prehistoric and Roman period settlements. All the sites were multi-phased, revealing similar and contrasting occupational patterns stretching from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age and beyond.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Section 1: Background to the Project -- Figure 1.1 Map of Cornwall showing sites covered by this monograph. -- Figure 1.2 Killigrew 1996, general view of excavation looking north. -- Section 2: Archaeological Recording during the 1996 Coast Protection Scheme at Porth Killier, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly -- Figure 2.1 Location map showing Isles of Scilly and area of excavation. -- Figure 2.2 Modern Landline mapping (area of excavation shown in red box). -- Figure 2.3 Detail from 1876 OS map (area of excavation shown in red box). -- Figure 2.4 Plan of the cliff edge showing the location of Zones A, B, C and D. -- Figure 2.5 Diagrammatic section drawing of Zone A, showing the main features. -- Figure 2.6 Pre-, during and post-excavation plans of roundhouse 21. -- Figure 2.7 Diagrammatic section drawing of Zone B, showing the main features. -- Figure 2.8 Detailed section drawing of pit [50] complex. -- Figure 2.10 Diagrammatic section drawing of Zone C, showing the main features after cutting back. -- Figure 2.9 Diagrammatic section drawing of Zone C, showing the main features before cutting back. -- Figure 2.11 Pre- and post-excavation plans of Zone C. -- Figure 2.12 Porth Killier. Bronze Age pottery from Zone A, roundhouse area. Note P3 shows interior of sherd Nos P6-8 are from the Coastal Erosion Survey. -- Figure 2.13 Bronze Age pottery from Zone B, area with pits. Note P11 shows interior of sherd. -- Figure 2.14 Porth Killier. Neolithic bowl P13 and Bronze Age pottery from Zone C, area with cairn. -- Figure 2.15 Porth Killier. Cross section of pivot stone SF175 from floor [27] roundhouse 21 Zone. -- Figure 2.16 Porth Killier. Broken saddle quern SF154A, [52] in fill of Pit [50] Zone B. Arrows indicate battering on side.

Figure 2.17 Porth Killier. 'Bruising mullers' SF72, from (9) midden predating roundhouse 21 Zone A and SF151, [52] in fill of pit [50] Zone B. Cupped pebble hammer SF94 from floor [27] roundhouse 21 Zone A. Arrows indicate battering on side. -- Figure 2.18 Rubbing stone SF148, from (84) soil build up over Zone C. -- Figure 2.19 Hammerstone SF176, from (150), cist infill in cairn in Zone C. -- Figure 2.20 Histograms showing size distribution of limpets in Porth Killier shell samples: contexts (9), (13), (14), [49]. Figures 2.20a-2.20c are for bulk samples collected during the 1996 CAU excavation and Figures 2.20d-2.20g for bulk samples collecte -- Figure 2.21 Results from the radiocarbon dating at Porth Killier and Porth Coose. -- Figure 2.22 Foundation trench for the concrete sea wall at Porth Killier showing the archaeological features exposed in the cliff face. (Photograph: Cornwall and Scilly HER at Kresen Kernow.) -- Figure 2.23 Modelled land and intertidal areas in Scilly at about 1500 cal BC, showing intertidal and coastal field systems (purple dots) recorded in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HER. (Source: Charman et al 2016.) -- Section 3: Excavations at Killigrew 1996: an Iron Age and Romano-British Industrial Site on the Trispen Bypass, Cornwall -- Figure 3.1 Location map of Killigrew enclosure. -- Figure 3.2 Killigrew enclosure and wider landscape. Later prehistoric enclosures (upstanding earthworks, place-names and cropmark enclosures). (Sources: HER and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly National Mapping Programme.) -- Figure 3.3 Killigrew enclosure. Area of geophysical survey and extent of excavation. (Source: GSB Geophysical Survey, Gater 1996.) -- Figure 3.4 Killigrew enclosure excavation area showing features of all phases.

Figure 3.5 Furnace [82] land related metalworking activities within the enclosure. Late Iron Age site reused in the Romano-British period. For location see Figure 3.4 and section B-A in Figure 3.6. -- Figure 3.6 East - facing section across furnace [82]. -- Figure 3.7 East-facing section of outer downslope ditch [20]. -- Figure 3.8 West-facing section of outer upslope ditch [31]. -- Figure 3.9 West-Facing section of inner upslope ditch [27]. -- Figure 3.10 East-facing section of inner downslope ditch [36]. -- Figure 3.11 Section across pits [4] and [7] - location of the tin dish. -- Figure 3.12 East-facing section across palisade ditch [58]. -- Figure 3.13 Beaker vessel from pit [113]. -- Figure 3.14 Roman period gabbroic pottery: P1 [8], P2 [6], P4-7 [37] and P8 [58]. -- Figure 3.15 Coarse gabbroic storage jar P3 [112]. -- Figure 3.16 Romano-British ceramics from hollow 17: P9 (13), P10 (12), P11 (12), P12 (12), P13 (10), P14 (2), and P15 (2). -- Figure 3.17 Romano-British ceramics: P16 wall 111, P17 soil in central area [55], P18 [55] and P19 [55]. -- Figure 3.18 Part of a tin dish found in pit [7]. -- Figure 3.19 Stone weights: S1 fill (3) of inner ditch on north side, S2 unstratified. -- Figure 3.20 Whetstone S5 wall 111. -- Figure 3.21 Furnace [82] during excavation looking north-west. -- Figure 3.22 Furnace [82] during excavation looking south. -- Figure 3.23 Tin dish in situ in pit [7]. -- Section 4: Archaeological Investigations at Nancemere, Truro, Cornwall 2002: a Prehistoric and Romano-British Landscape -- Figure 4.1 Site location. -- Figure 4.2 Extent of excavation, geophysical survey results and principal features. -- Figure 4.3 The Early Bronze Age: Location of Beaker pits and possible contemporary features in Trench 2. -- Figure 4.4 Curvilinear ditch [3010]. -- Figure 4.5 Bronze Age activity in Trench 2.

Figure 4.6 The Late Iron Age / Romano-British enclosure. -- Figure 4.7 The round - Phase I. -- Figure 4.8 The round - Phase Ib. -- Figure 4.9 The round - Phase 2. -- Figure 4.10 The round - Phase 2 entrance features. -- Figure 4.11 The round - Phase 2 stone capped drain in entrance. -- Figure 4.12 The round - Phases 3 and 4. -- Figure 4.13 The round - structure 1281 and associated features. -- Figure 4.14 The round - structure 1085, hearth complex 1108 and associated features. -- Figure 4.15 east end round CA layout CA Portrait (1).jpg -- Figure 4.16 Field systems found at Nancemere. -- Figure 4.17 Pottery P1 (top), P2 (middle), P9 (bottom). -- Section 5: Life Outside the Round: Bronze Age and Iron Age Settlement at Higher Besore and Truro College, Threemilestone, Truro, 2004-5 -- Figure 5.1 Site location. -- Figure 5.2 Extent of excavated areas and geophysical anomalies. -- Figure 5.3 The post-medieval landscape around Higher Besore. -- Figure 5.4 Aerial photograph of Truro College playing fields during excavation. -- Figure 5.5 Higher Besore Area F - Early - Late Bronze Age activity. -- Figure 5.6 Higher Besore Area F, structure 1 (Early Bronze Age). -- Figure 5.7 Excavation of Late Bronze Age Plain Ware from Higher Besore pit [6500]. -- Figure 5.8 Bronze Age activity across the excavated areas. -- Figure 5.9 Late Bronze Age double sided mullers and quern fragments excavated from pit [5027] at Truro College, Area D. -- Figure 5.10 Truro College Area D, Late Bronze Age pits. -- Figure 5.11 Truro College, the Late Bronze Age post-ring structures (red circles represent the likely position of walls). -- Figure 5.12 Truro College, Late Bronze Age structure 3. -- Figure 5.13 Truro College, Late Bronze Age structures 2, 4 and 6. -- Figure 5.14 Truro College, structure 5. -- Figure 5.15 Higher Besore Area F, structure 2 (Late Bronze Age).

Figure 5.16 Truro College, section through Late Bronze Age pit [2045]. -- Figure 5.17 Late Bronze Age pit [2045]. -- Figure 5.18 Late Iron Age features at Higher Besore. -- Figure 5.19 Late Iron Age features at Truro College. -- Figure 5.20 Higher Besore House 1 and Truro College structure 1. -- Figure 5.21 Higher Besore Late Iron Age houses 2 (right) and 3 (left). -- Figure 5.22 Higher Besore Late Iron Age house 3 during excavation. -- Figure 5.23 Dressel 1A amphora rim from ditch [2500], Higher Besore house 3. -- Figure 5.24 Higher Besore Late Iron Age house 4. -- Figure 5.25 Higher Besore Late Iron Age house 5. -- Figure 5.26 Excavation of the stone-filled ditch surrounding Higher Besore house 5. -- Figure 5.27 Higher Besore Late Iron Age houses 6 and 7 and oval ancillary structure (top centre). -- Figure 5.28 Higher Besore Late Iron Age houses 8 (bottom) and 9 (top left) and structure 6107. -- Figure 5.29 Higher Besore house 9 during excavation. -- Figure 5.30 Higher Besore Late Iron Age houses 10, 11 and 12. -- Figure 5.31 Sections through Truro College Late Iron Age ditches [2010] and [2022]. -- Figure 5.32 a (top) and b (bottom) 60 Two images of the La Téne influenced Late Iron Age brooch from Truro College structure 1. -- Figure 5.33 Ironwork fragment SF14. -- Figure 5.34 Pottery: Higher Besore. P1-2 Beaker from structure 1 -- P3-4 Late Bronze Age from dyke pockets. -- Figure 5.35 Pottery: P5-8 Late Bronze Age Plain Ware. Higher Besore pit [6500]. -- Figure 5.36 Pottery: Late Bronze Age Plain Ware. Truro College Area D, P41-2 hollow [5030], P43 pit [5015], P44-5 pit [5027], P46-7 hollow [5053]. -- Figure 5.37 Pottery: P49-50 Late Bronze Age Plain Ware from Truro College pit [2009] in structure 3, upper fill (2000). -- Figure 5.38 Pottery: Late Bronze Age Plain Ware from Truro College Pit [2009] in structure 3, upper fill (2000) P51-8.

lower fill (2041) P59-60.