Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. High Speed I Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape: Volume 3: Late Iron Age to Roman Human Remains and Environmental Reports
Catherine Barnett, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Elizabeth Stafford, Jessica M Grimm & Chris J. Stevens
Description
The detailed specialist reports in this volume, the third of four, present analyses of the Late Iron Age and Roman human bone and animal bone assemblages recovered during the reported excavations, as well as environmental remains and dating evidence relating to contemporary landscape, subsistence and economy.
A single cremation burial and at least 48 inhumation burials were recorded at Springhead, with a single inhumation burial of a neonate also recovered from within the Northfleet villa complex. Whole or partial skulls appear to have been deliberately placed and redeposited in a variety of features, including a 'ritual shaft' at Springhead. Over 68,000 fragments of animal bones were recovered, including many complete animal skeletons. At Springhead the assemblage is dominated by sheep/goat whilst cattle are more important at the Northfleet villa.
The environmental evidence for Roman subsistence and economy is presented in reports on charred plant remains, wood charcoal, and marine shell. Of particular note is the evidence for brewing on an almost industrial scale at the villa, with a malting oven, a barn and three brewing tanks discovered - the largest of which could hold up to 16,000 pints alone, supplying not only the villa's need but almost certainly also for trade further afield. Environmental sequences and remain relating to the development of the wider Roman landscape of the Ebbsfleet Valley were also recovered from a range of locations.
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| Jan. 1, 2011 | Oxford Wessex Archaeology | 153 | 978-0-9545970-5-4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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