Ceremonial Living in the Third Millennium BC: Excavations at Ringlemere Site M1, Kent, 2002–2006
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Creator (person)
Needham, Stuart
Parfitt, Keith
Date published
2020
Abstract
The discovery in 2001 of an exquisite Early Bronze Age gold cup at Ringlemere Farm in Kent prompted an extensive survey and excavation of the site from 2002–2006. Excavation revealed a site with a long history of use, the most striking evidence being for intensive activity in the third millennium BC associated with a henge monument, the interior of which was later buried beneath an Early Bronze Age mound. This volume presents a detailed report on a rich array of structural and artefactual evidence spanning a few thousand years of prehistory, and the site’s subsequent slide into agricultural anonymity. Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age structures include a horseshoe setting, post alignments, hearths, pit clusters and varied small post settings. Evaluation of form and associated material culture steers interpretation away from the purely domestic and contributes to the keen ongoing debate about the place of ceremony in the world of third millennium Britain.
Contributor (person)
Macpherson-Grant, Nigel
Butler, Chris
Gibson, Alex
Healy, Frances
Watson, Jacqui
Varndell, Gill
Jackson, Ralph
Ixer, Rob
Heathcote, Jen
Carruthers, Wendy
Martin, Louise
Linford, Paul
Editor
Needham, Stuart
Parfitt, Keith
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
William and Edith Oldham Charitable Trust | |
Canterbury Archaeological Trust | |
Dover Archaeological Group | |
Kent Archaeological Society | |
Publisher
British Museum
Place of publication
London
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