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Sacred mound, holy rings : Silbury Hill and the West Kennet palisade enclosures : a later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire

Title
Sacred mound, holy rings : Silbury Hill and the West Kennet palisade enclosures : a later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire / by Alasdair Whittle ; with contributions by J. Best [and others].
Author
Whittle, A. W. R.
Publication
Oxford, England : Oxbow, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Best, J. (Joanne)
Description
xii, 176 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations, maps, plans; 30 cm
Summary
P. 1.
Series Statement
  • Cardiff studies in archaeology
  • Oxbow monograph ; 74
Uniform Title
  • Cardiff studies in archaeology
  • Oxbow monograph ; 74.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1968-1970
  • Geschichte 1987-1990
  • Mounds > England > Wiltshire
  • Neolithic period > England > Wiltshire
  • Antiquities
  • Mounds
  • Neolithic period
  • Ausgrabung
  • Funde
  • Neolithikum
  • Inventar
  • Neolithic period > England > Silbury Hill
  • Neolithic period > Great Britain > West Kennet Valley
  • Mounds > England > Silbury Hill
  • Mounds > Great Britain > West Kennet Valley
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Silbury Hill
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain > West Kennet Valley
  • Tumulus > Grande-Bretagne > Wiltshire
  • Néolithique > Grande-Bretagne > Wiltshire
  • Silbury Hill (England)
  • Wiltshire (England) > Antiquities
  • England > Silbury Hill
  • England > Wiltshire
  • Distrikt Kennet > West
  • Silbury Hill Avebury
  • Silbury Hill (England) > Antiquities
  • West Kennet Valley (England) > Antiquities
  • Wiltshire (GB) > Antiquités
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176).
Contents
  • pt. 1. Silbury Hill monumental mound. p. 5.
  • Location and setting. p. 5.
  • Present state of the site. p. 7.
  • History of previous investigations. p. 8.
  • Excavations in 1968-70: aims and progress. p. 11.
  • Tunnel. p. 13.
  • Top and upper part of the mound. p. 20.
  • Ditch. p. 22.
  • Nature and sequence of construction and the date of the mound. p. 24.
  • Soils. p. 26.
  • Pollen. p. 29.
  • Macroscopic plant remains. p. 32.
  • Insects. p. 36.
  • Mollusca. p. 47.
  • Vertebrates and small vertebrates. p. 47.
  • Plates. p. 51.
  • pt. 2. West Kennet palisade enclosures. p. 53.
  • Location and setting. p. 53.
  • Sequence of discovery and the aims of research. p. 54.
  • Palisade enclosure 1. p. 57.
  • Palisade enclosure 2. p. 76.
  • Other ditches. p. 86.
  • Natural channel and valley history. p. 86.
  • Finds. p. 90.
  • Animal bone. p. 117.
  • Wood charcoal. p. 129.
  • Charred plant remains. p. 134.
ISBN
  • 1900188260
  • 9781900188265
OCLC
  • ocm38115697
  • 38115697
  • SCSB-737110
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library