Over Barrow 2: Textiles
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Date published
2025
Abstract
This ‘Book of Sites’ spans 16 years of fieldwork and 21 sites upon Barleycroft Farm’s eastern terrace and Over’s southern River Great Ouse mid-stream islands. In it issues of sampling methodology, and analytical approaches to landscape and the distribution of the area’s many settlements, are foregrounded. Three Early Bronze Age ring-ditches and two barrows were excavated. The primary cremation of one of the latter included ‘selected’ plants and plant-fibre textiles, with the other – attesting to acts of ‘monument erasure’ – starting as a later Neolithic oval barrow, reworked as an Early Bronze Age pond barrow and subsequently infilled with Middle-period midden deposits.
Book title
A Book of Sites. River Great Ouse Floodplain and Mid-stream Islands Investigations
Editor
Evans, Christopher
Pollard, Joshua
Haughton, Mark
Pagination
431-437
Publisher
McDonald Institute
Place of publication
Cambridge