Late Neolithic Art and Symbolism at Rothley Lodge Farm, Leicester Road, Rothley (SK 592 140)
| Autor: | Small, Rachel, Cooper, Nicholas, Cooper, Lynden, Hunt, Leon, Browning, Jennifer C, Loveday, Roy, Beamish, Matthew G, Clay, Patrick N |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| DOI: | 10.5284/1107439 |
| Popis: | Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 90, 13-66 This paper highlights some of the most significant discoveries made during fieldwork at Rothley Lodge Farm, Leicester Road, Rothley, Leicestershire, undertaken in 2004 and 2005 (Hunt 2006). The fieldwork revealed deposits and material of mid-late Neolithic date (c.3600-2300 BC). Evidence of deliberately placed finds has been located in several of the archaeological features, including a large amorphous, flat-based pit, the fill of which contained several thousand finds, including decorated sherds of Grooved Ware pottery, a large lithic assemblage and a remarkable engraved stone plaque displaying figurative art (Cooper and Hunt 2005). Another pit also contained Grooved Ware, calcined stone axe fragments, calcined roe deer bone and a stone rubber with two ceramic spheres, which may represent a fertility symbol. The artefacts are interpreted as symbols of identity and transformation, perhaps connected with the 'closure' of a settlement. |
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