Thurrock's deeper past : : a confluence of time : the archaeology of the borough of Thurrock, Essex, from the last Ice Age to the establishment of the English kingdoms / / Christopher John Tripp.

• VerfasserIn: Tripp, Christopher John,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans

Thurrock's Deeper Past: A Confluence of Time' looks at the evidence for human activity in Thurrock and this part of the Thames estuary since the last Ice Age, and how the river crossing point here has been of great importance to the development of human settlement and trade in the British Isles.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figure 1. The Clacton spear point. -- Figure 2. How a flint can be attached. -- Figure 3. Flint scrappers found in Orsett. -- Figure 4. The Stifford 'Macehead'. -- Figure 5. Mucking - plan of soils marks of all periods. -- Figure 6. Aerial photograph of the Orsett Causewayed Enclosure. -- Figure 7. A plan of the enclosure. -- Figure 8. A painting of the enclosure. -- Figure 9. A plan of the palisade entrance, Area B. -- Figure 10. Polished axehead. -- Figure 11. The Hassingbrook transverse arrowhead. -- Figure 12. Orsett Cock Beakers. -- Figure 13. The Mucking Beaker burial: -- top left - arrowheads -- bottom left the grave cut -- bottom right, the Beaker -- Figure 14. A computer image of the North Ring defended enclosure. -- Figure 15. The evolution of the Gun Hill site. -- Figure 16. Loom weights found at South Ockendon. -- Figure 17. The River Crouch paddle. -- Figure 18. The Orsett hoard - rapiers and spearhead. -- Figure 19. Part of Thurloe Walk hoard. -- Figure 20. Photograph of the round barrow cropmark. -- Figure 21. Model of the East Tilbury round barrow and photograph of the cropmark. -- Figure 22. The urn and quern stone cremation burial. -- Figure 23. Gun Hill: showing enclosures. -- Figure 24. Gun Hill - Area E. -- Figure 25. Gun Hill: Enclosures A &amp -- B. -- Figure 26. Gun Hill: Enclosure A entrance. -- Figure 27. A reconstruction of the Mucking hearth. -- Figure 28. Maiden Castle ramparts, Dorset. -- Figure 29. the Late Iron Age Orsett Cock triple-ditch enclosure. -- Figure 30. Barrington's Farm: location of features plan. -- Figure 31. William Edwards school cropmarks. -- Figure 32. Torc drawing - note the 'repair'. -- Figure 35. Potin coins. -- Figure 36. The farmstead at Mucking. -- Figure 37. Quernstone found at Aveley.

Figure 38. Excavation of a kiln at Mucking. -- Figure 39. The Chadwell kiln. -- Figure 40. Ardale: Area C post-hole structure. -- Figure 41. Excavation of a kiln found at Mucking. -- Figure 42. Amphora burial - West Thurrock. -- Figure 43. A Terra Sigillata cup. -- Figure 44. Graffiti marks. -- Figure 45. Mucking mouse marks. -- Figure 46. The largest structure (S9) located in the southern enclosure. -- Figure 47. Section drawings of the 'drip gully'. -- Figure 48. Building (S1) at Orsett, defined by a gully. -- Figure 49. A theoretical model plan of (S1), showing: A: polygonal wall foundation -- B: possible ring beam -- C: rafters -- Figure 50. The original (and erroneous?) theoretical model plan of S9 showing: A: drainage gully -- B: conjectural wall -- C: main ring beam -- D: inner ring beam -- Figure 51. The new model of (S9) showing A: conjectural wall -- B: inner ring beam. -- Figure 52. The 1997 excavation. -- Figure 53. Model of a Sunken Floored Building in Thurrock Museum. -- Figure 54. Ardale Area A: spearhead with surviving material. -- Figure 55. Orsett Anglo-Saxon cemetery within the Neolithic causewayed enclosure. -- Figure 56. Linford loom weights. -- Figure 57. Mrs Margaret Ursula Jones - site director. -- Figure 58. Mucking Anglo-Saxon phases. -- Figure 59. 'Shadow' burial -- Figure 60. Anglo-Saxon Pottery from Mucking. -- Figure 61. The 'bread' markings. -- Figure 62. Cruciform brooches. -- Figure 63. Button brooches. -- Figure 64. Beaded necklace from Mucking. -- Figure 65. Mucking bucket. -- Back cover.