Excavations at Redhouse, Adwick le Street, Doncaster : : Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman Occupation.

• VerfasserIn: Preece, Tracy,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (166 pages)

From May 2000 to June 2017, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook a programme of archaeological excavations and watching briefs atAdwick Le Street, 6.5km to the north-west of Doncaster (South Yorkshire). They revealed evidence for Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman activity.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Figure 1.1. Site location -- Figure 1.2. Archaeological works -- Figure 1.3. All features phased plan -- Figure 2.1. Plan of Bronze Age ring ditch and sections -- Figure 2.2. Ring ditch RD1, looking south -- Figure 2.3. Pits within RD1, looking north-east -- Figure 2.4. Bronze Age pottery -- Figure 2.5. Stone axe -- Figure 2.6. Bronze awl -- Figure 3.1. Iron Age field systems and enclosures. -- Figure 3.2. Roman field system and enclosures -- Figure 3.3. Plan of Iron Age enclosure E1 -- Figure 3.4. South-east corner of enclosure E1, looking south-west -- Figure 3.5. Enclosure E1, D1 sections -- Figure 3.6. Internal entranceway in ditch D2, looking west -- Figure 3.7. Pit sections -- Figure 3.8. Pit [186], looking east -- Figure 3.9. Plan of Iron Age enclosure E4 -- Figure 3.10. Enclosure E4 sections -- Figure 3.11. Trackway ditches D73, D76 and D77 -- Figure 3.12. Plan of Iron Age pits and sections -- Figure 3.13. Crouched inhumation burial HB1 in pit G100 -- Figure 3.14. Inhumation burial HB1 plan and section -- Figure 3.15. Plan of Roman enclosure E2 -- Figure 3.16. Plan of Roman enclosure E3 -- Figure 3.17. Enclosure E3 sections -- Figure 3.18. Pit PG36, looking south-west -- Figure 3.19. Plan of Roman enclosure E5 -- Figure 3.20. Enclosure E5 sections -- Figure 3.21. Plan of Roman enclosure E6 -- Figure 3.22. Ditch D80, looking west -- Figure 3.23. Enclosure E6, section 435 -- Figure 3.24. Ring ditch RH1 plan and sections -- Figure 3.25. Plan of Roman enclosure E7 -- Figure 3.26. Enclosure E7, D113 sections -- Figure 3.27. Enclosure ditch D113 showing limestone blocks, looking north-east -- Figure 3.28. Plan of Roman enclosures E8, E9 and E10 -- Figure 3.29. View of Roman enclosure E8 -- Figure 3.30. Enclosure E8, D132 and PG136 sections.

Figure 3.31. Enclosure E8, PG135 and E9, D98/D129 and PG130 sections -- Figure 3.32. Enclosure E10, PG147 and droveway G143 sections -- Figure 3.33. Plan of Roman enclosure E13 -- Figure 3.34. Inner enclosure ditch D160, looking east. -- Figure 3.35. Oven G164 -- Figure 3.36. ABG found in pit PG166 -- Figure 3.37. Plan of Roman road -- Figure 3.38. Plough scars G21 and section through the road, looking south -- Figure 3.39. Section through the Roman road, looking south-east -- Figure 3.40. Roman road section 135 -- Figure 3.41. Roman road, section 24 -- Figure 3.42. Reconstruction drawing of Redhouse in the Roman period, looking north -- Figure 3.43. Iron Age pottery -- Figure 3.44. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.45. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.46. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.47. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.48. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.49. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.50. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.51. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.52. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.53. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.54. Roman pottery -- Figure 3.55. Relative quantities of jars and bowl/dish tablewares at urban and rural sites in Yorkshire and the north (deep, wide-mouthed jars are counted as jars for the purpose of this analysis) -- Figure 3.56. Samian ware -- Figure 3.57. The complete quern, SF 108 (photo scale 50mm) -- Figure 3.58. Roman coins -- Figure 3.59. Roman coin moulds -- Figure 3.60. Pipe fragment -- Figure 3.61. Coin mould reconstruction -- Figure 3.62. Stereo microscope image of the surface of SF 4, showing silver-coloured metal surface worn away to reveal and green-copper corrosion protruding from the coin interior -- Figure 3.63. Stereo microscope image of edge of SF 26, showing silver-coloured metal worn away to reveal and green-copper corrosion underneath.

Figure 3.64. Schematic diagram of a cross section of the coin surface, depicting how wear on the surface of a plated coin can expose the metal interior, as is the case for SF 4 and SF 26 -- Figure 3.65. Stereo microscope image showing dendritic structures visible on the surface of Coin SF 701. Dendrites are corroded to a greenish colour -- the eutectoid retains a grey-white metallic appearance -- Figure 3.66. Image of the edge of SF 701, showing area of a broken surface. Some possible layering is visible, but it is far less distinct than in the silver-plated forgeries (Figs 3.62 and 3.63) -- Figure 3.67. The labelled XRF spectra of SF 25 -- Figure 3.68. The labelled XRF spectra for the coin SF 8 -- Figure 3.69. The labelled XRF spectra for the counterfeit coin SF 4 -- Figure 3.70. The labelled XRF spectra for the counterfeit coin SF 26 -- Figure 3.71. The labelled XRF spectra for the counterfeit coin SF 701 -- Figure 3.72. The backscatter electron image of SF 4, showing a close-up of the raised design shown in Fig 3.62. Due to its higher atomic weight, the silver plating (white) is clearly differentiated from the corroded underlying Cu-Sn alloy (mid-grey), and -- Figure 3.73. EDS spectrum of silver-rich surface layer in the electron image (Spectrum 85). -- Figure 3.74. EDS spectrum of the copper-tin alloy core below the silver-rich plated layer (Spectrum 86) -- Figure 3.75. Backscatter electron image of the surface of SF 26 -- Figure 3.76. EDS spectrum of black spots in the electron image (Spectrum 167) -- Figure 3.77. EDS spectrum of light grey region in the electron image (Spectrum 162) -- Figure 3.78. Backscatter electron image of the surface of SF 701, showing dendritic structure.

Figure 3.79. EDS spectrum of the black coloured region of the electron image (spectrum 35). This is likely pitting in the corroded dendrite that has trapped some adhering sediment -- Figure 3.80. EDS spectrum of the eutectoid (light-grey region of the backscatter image) (spectrum 40) -- Figure 3.81. EDS spectrum of a corroded dendrite (dark grey phase in the backscatter image) (spectrum 41) -- Figure 3.82. Backscatter electron image of the surface of SF 9 -- Figure 3.83. EDS spectrum of light grey spots in the electron image (Spectrum 106) -- Figure 3.84. EDS spectrum of dark grey coloured region in the electron image (Spectrum 109) -- Figure 3.85. The backscatter electron image of coin SF 25 -- Figure 3.86. EDS spectrum of black coloured region in the electron image (Spectrum 6) -- Figure 3.87. Small finds -- Figure 4.1. Sites mentioned in the text -- Figure 4.2. Cropmark data of the magnesian limestone -- Figure 4.3. Pottery distribution -- Figure 4.4. Comparative sites in the area -- List of Tables -- Table 1.1. Periods of activity -- Table 2.1. Pits within ring ditch RD1 -- Table 2.2. Radiocarbon dates for early Bronze Age cremation burials in Yorkshire -- Table 2.3. The radiocarbon determinations for the Bronze Age ring ditch and cremations -- Table 3.1. Fabric groups by estimated number of vessels -- Table 3.2. Fabric groups by weight -- Table 3.3. Quantification of Roman pottery -- Table 3.4. Vessel quantification by chronological group -- Table 3.5. Quantification of samian pottery -- Table 3.6. Quantification of Roman coins -- Table 3.7. Quantification of coin moulds -- Table 3.7 continued. Quantification of coin moulds.

Table 3.8. The major and minor elements detected via pXRF in the coins. Entries highlighted are the coins identified as counterfeit. Note that many detected elements (including, but not limited to Si, Al, Ca, K, and P) are more likely to derive from adher -- Table 3.9. Summary of small finds by material type and enclosure -- Table 3.10. Species representation (NISP) of hand collected bones, -- Table 3.11. Species representation by body parts for hand collected bones (calculated using the maximum count of zones per body) -- Table 3.12. Environmental samples from enclosure ditch D1 -- Table 3.14. Environmental samples from structures S5 and S6 -- Table 3.15. Environmental samples from pits PG9 and PG12 -- Table 3.16. Environmental samples from enclosure E8 -- Table 3.16 continued. Environmental samples from enclosure E8 -- Table 3.16 continued. Environmental samples from enclosure E8 -- Table 3.17. Environmental samples from features associated with enclosure E13 -- Table 3.17 continued. Environmental samples from features associated with enclosure E13 -- Table 3.18. The radiocarbon determinations for the Iron Age, Roman and medieval -- Table 4.1. Comparison of fields within co-axial system -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Historical and archaeological background -- Location, topography and geology -- Mitigation works -- Project background -- Site phasing -- Chapter 2 -- Neolithic and early Bronze Age -- Overview -- Pits -- Ring ditch -- Worked flint -- by Yvonne Wolframm-Murray -- Bronze Age pottery -- by Blaise Vyner -- Stone axe -- by Andy Chapman -- Bronze awl -- by Blaise Vyner and Tora Hylton -- Cremated human remains -- by Chris Chinnock -- Environmental remains -- by Val Fryer -- Radiocarbon dating -- Chapter 3 -- Iron Age and Roman -- Iron Age enclosures and field system -- Enclosure E1 -- Overview.

Isolated Cremation Burial.