Queen Mary's Hospital Carshalton: An Iron Age and early Romano-British Settlement
Andrew B. Powell
Description
Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. Originally an open settlement, by the Late Iron Age parts of it had been enclosed by an arrangements of small ditches, which underwent some modifications over the next two centuries, while keeping their overall layout.
An Early/Middle Iron Age roundhouse and an adjacent square granary, were uncovered, but most of the features were pits, including grain storage pits. These contained evidence of activities relating to arable and pastoral farming, domestic life and craft/industry, including Romano-British metalworking.
Some of the materials in the pits had been deliberately deposited, probably for ritual/religious reasons. A few pits contained carefully selected metal, ceramic and/or other objects. Others contained partial or complete animal carcasses, sometimes in large numbers; sheep were the most comment animal deposited, but also of note are a number of dog burials.
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| Jan. 1, 2017 | Wessex Archaeology | 114 | 978-1-874350-94-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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