Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Needham, Stuart
2. Healy, Frances

Description

1. vii, 342 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (some color); 30 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Series statement

1. Research publication ; no. 217

Uniform title

1. Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 217.

Subject

1. Bronze age > Great Britain
2. Antiquities, Prehistoric > England > Kent
3. Bronze age > England > Kent
4. Goldwork, Prehistoric > England > Kent
5. Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Kent
6. Goldwork, Prehistoric
7. Excavations (Archaeology)
8. Antiquities, Prehistoric
9. Bronze age
10. Ringlemere Farm Site (England)
11. Great Britain
12. England > Kent
13. England > Ringlemere Farm Site

Call number

1. JFG 22-262

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.

Author

1. Parfitt, Keith, author.

Title

1. Ceremonial living in the third millennium BC : excavations at Ringlemere site M1, Kent, 2002-2006 / Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham ; with contributions from Frances Healy [and 11 others].

Publisher

1. London : The British Museum Press, [2020]

Copyright date

1. ©2020

Type of content

1. text
2. still image
3. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Research publication ; no. 217
2. Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 217.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.

Added author

1. Needham, Stuart, author.
2. Healy, Frances, contributor.

ISBN

1. 9780861592173 (paperback)
2. 0861592174 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFG 22-262