Breaking Chalk: the archaeological investigation of early neolithic flint mines at Long Down and Harrow Hill, West Sussex. 1984-86
| Autor: | Holgate, Robin, Baczkowski, Jon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| DOI: | 10.5284/1086806 |
| Popis: | Sussex Archaeological Collections, 155, 0-0 Supplementary material for Breaking Chalk: the archaeological investigation of early neolithic flint mines at Long Down and Harrow Hill, West Sussex. 1984-86.Fieldwork undertaken between October 1984 and September 1986 at four of the six neolithic flint mining sites in West Sussex recorded the remains of shafts, drift mines and flintworking areas adjacent to the mines. Sample excavations at two of these sites, Long Down and Harrow Hill, revealed that ploughing had truncated nearly all the surviving remains in those areas under cultivation. The flintwork, pottery and organic material retrieved from the excavations provided information on the flint artefacts produced at these sites, and fragments of possible Carinated Bowl, together with radiocarbon dating, proved that mining took place at Long Down in the early neolithic period (4000-3500 BC). The discovery of drift mines at Harrow Hill is significant, as they are the only open-cast or drift mines to have been investigated at a prehistoric flint mining site in southern England. |
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