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Ceremonial living in the third millennium BC : excavations at Ringlemere site M1, Kent, 2002-2006

Title
Ceremonial living in the third millennium BC : excavations at Ringlemere site M1, Kent, 2002-2006 / Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham ; with contributions from Frances Healy [and 11 others].
Author
Parfitt, Keith
Publication
  • London : The British Museum Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Needham, Stuart
  • Healy, Frances
Description
vii, 342 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (some color); 30 cm.
Summary
The discovery in 2001 of an exquisite Early Bronze Age gold cup at Ringlemere Farm in Kent prompted an extensive survey and excavation of the site from 2002-2006. Excavation revealed a site with a long history of use, the most striking evidence being for intensive activity in the third millennium BC associated with a henge monument, the interior of which was later buried beneath an Early Bronze Age mound. This volume presents a detailed report on a rich array of structural and artefactual evidence spanning a few thousand years of prehistory, and the site's subsequent slide into agricultural anonymity. Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age structures include a horseshoe setting, post alignments, hearths, pit clusters and varied small post settings. Evaluation of form and associated material culture steers interpretation away from the purely domestic and contributes to the keen ongoing debate about the place of ceremony in the world of third millennium Britain.
Series Statement
Research publication ; no. 217
Uniform Title
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 217.
Subject
  • Bronze age > Great Britain
  • Antiquities, Prehistoric > England > Kent
  • Bronze age > England > Kent
  • Goldwork, Prehistoric > England > Kent
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Kent
  • Goldwork, Prehistoric
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Antiquities, Prehistoric
  • Bronze age
  • Ringlemere Farm Site (England)
  • Great Britain
  • England > Kent
  • England > Ringlemere Farm Site
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.
Call Number
JFG 22-262
ISBN
  • 9780861592173
  • 0861592174
OCLC
1000581667
Author
Parfitt, Keith, author.
Title
Ceremonial living in the third millennium BC : excavations at Ringlemere site M1, Kent, 2002-2006 / Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham ; with contributions from Frances Healy [and 11 others].
Publisher
London : The British Museum Press, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Research publication ; no. 217
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 217.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.
Added Author
Needham, Stuart, author.
Healy, Frances, contributor.
Research Call Number
JFG 22-262
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