Sacred Mound, Holy Rings
The excavations at Silbury Hill in the late 1960s were broadcast to the world on television and generated a huge amount of excitement, but until now have not been published. This report gives a full account of the excavation and discusses the archaeological and environmental evidence from the tunnel...
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Oxbow Books
2022
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| Urunga tuihono: | OCN: 1346816034 |
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| author | Whittle, Alasdair |
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| description | The excavations at Silbury Hill in the late 1960s were broadcast to the world on television and generated a huge amount of excitement, but until now have not been published. This report gives a full account of the excavation and discusses the archaeological and environmental evidence from the tunnel, the ditch section and the cuttings on the top of the mound, as well as the radiocarbon dates. Neolithic enclosures at nearby West Kennet have been the subject of research excavations since 1987, carried out by Cardiff university. One is a nearly circular double enclosure that straddles the present Kennet, the other is a larger elliptical enclosure. The character of the palisades, their construction, the finds and the radiocarbon dates are fully reported. Very importantly there is an extensive discussion of the interpretation of Silbury Hill and the enclosures and of their relation to each other and to the other features of the Neolithic landscape: the Sanctuary, the West Kennet Avenue and Avebury itself. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-847542025-07-30T22:20:43Z Sacred Mound, Holy Rings Whittle, Alasdair Social Science Archaeology The excavations at Silbury Hill in the late 1960s were broadcast to the world on television and generated a huge amount of excitement, but until now have not been published. This report gives a full account of the excavation and discusses the archaeological and environmental evidence from the tunnel, the ditch section and the cuttings on the top of the mound, as well as the radiocarbon dates. Neolithic enclosures at nearby West Kennet have been the subject of research excavations since 1987, carried out by Cardiff university. One is a nearly circular double enclosure that straddles the present Kennet, the other is a larger elliptical enclosure. The character of the palisades, their construction, the finds and the radiocarbon dates are fully reported. Very importantly there is an extensive discussion of the interpretation of Silbury Hill and the enclosures and of their relation to each other and to the other features of the Neolithic landscape: the Sanctuary, the West Kennet Avenue and Avebury itself. 2022-07-01T04:02:40Z 2022-07-01T04:02:40Z 2022-06-30T05:33:20Z 1997 book OCN: 1346816034 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57153 9781789256475 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84754 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57153/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57153/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57153/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57153/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57153/1/external_content.pdf Oxbow Books Oxbow Books 53fda2f2-3fe6-4765-8758-df63da48bd65 Knowledge Unlatched 9781789256475 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Oxbow Books open access |
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