Imperial College Sports Ground and RMC Land, Harlington: The development of prehistoric and later communities in the Colne Valley and on the Heathrow Terrace
Andrew B. Powell, Alistair J. Barclay, Lorraine Mepham & Chris J. Stevens
Description
This volume reports on the excavation at the former Imperial College Sports Ground, RMC Land and Land East of Wall Garden Farm, near the villages of Harlington and Sipson in the London Borough of Hillingdon, which revealed an archaeological landscape that developed from the Neolithic through to the medieval period.
The Early to Middle Neolithic saw the construction of a rectangular ditched mortuary monument, and the widespread digging of pits, many with deposits containing Peterborough Ware. A dispersed monument complex comprising a double ring ditch and two circular enclosures was associated with rare Middle Neolithic cremation burials.
The Middle and Late Bronze Age saw the formalised organisation of the landscape into extensive rectangular fields, within which was evidence for settlement and an associated cremation cemetery. A small Iron Age nucleated settlement was developed in the Romano-British period with enclosures flanking a trackway, inhumation and cremation burials, middens and quarries. The Saxon period is represented by two possible sunken-featured buildings, burials in a small early Saxon cemetery, and the establishment of a middle Saxon to medieval field system of small enclosures and associated wells.
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| Jan. 1, 2015 | Wessex Archaeology | 354 | 978-1-874350-76-7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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