Archaeology of the Wallingford Bypass, 1986-92: Late Bronze Age Ritual and Habitation on a Thames Eyot at Whitecross Farm, Wallingford

by Anne Marie Cromarty, Alistair Barclay, George Lambrick

The site at Whitecross Farm, including timber structures located on the edge of the eyot, and a substantial midden and occupation deposit has been securely radiocarbon-dated to the late Bronze Age. The late Bronze Age artefact assemblages are suggestive of a high-status site, with a range of domestic and ritual activities represented. The bank of the Grim's Ditch earthwork was found to have preserved evidence of earlier settlement, dating to the Neolithic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0947816674
• ISBN13: 9780947816674
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Lancaster
• Length: 264 Pages