Coton Park, Rugby, Warwickshire : a Middle Iron Age settlement with copper alloy casting /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chapman, Andy, 1951- (Author, Illustrator)
Other Authors: Anderson, Trevor, -2005 (Contributor), Walsh, Pat (Illustrator), Roughley, Mark (Illustrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2020]
Series:Archaeopress archaeology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents Page
  • List of Figures
  • Figure 1.1: Site location
  • Figure 1.2: Results of geophysical survey, showing major structures (by Geophysical Surveys, Bradford, from Warwickshire Museum 1997)
  • Figure 1.3: Aerial view of the northern half of the site, looking north, showing major Iron Age structures and the furrows of the medieval field system (original images by Andy Holland)
  • Figure 1.4: General site plan, showing the prehistoric features and the overlying furrows of the medieval field system
  • Figure 1.5: Looking north-east across enclosure E4 to the linear boundary ditch D1, showing the water-filled features following the flooding during March and April 1998
  • Figure 1.6: Excavation of enclosure E1, producing copper alloy casting debris
  • maintaining progress by use of barrow runs across the wet surface and bailing out features as necessary
  • Figure 1.7: Near the end of the excavation, looking towards the north-east corner of the site, with the machine stripped areas to the left, centre and top, and the box scraper stripped areas to the centre-right and foreground
  • Figure 2.1: Plans and sections of Bronze Age pits
  • Figure 3.1: General plan of Iron Age settlement, Phases 1-5
  • Figure 3.2: The development of the Middle Iron Age settlement, Phases 1-4
  • Figure 3.3: The Iron Age settlement, Phase 1: later Early Iron Age (c.450-400BC)
  • Figure 3.4: The southern portal posthole, 195, and the narrow wall slot, 196, of the early roundhouse RD6, looking south
  • Figure 3.5: Aerial view of the principal roundhouse RD5, looking north (image by Andy Holland)
  • Figure 3.6: Principal roundhouse RD5, looking west across the late outer enclosure ditch
  • Figure 3.7: Aerial view of the copper alloy working area, Group1, looking north (image by Andy Holland)
  • Figure 3.8: Set of loomweights from a pit in RD18
  • Figure 3.9: The Iron Age settlement, Phase 2: earlier Middle Iron Age (c.400-350/300BC)
  • Figure 3.10: The Iron Age settlement, Phase 3: earlier Middle Iron Age (c.350/200-250/200BC)
  • Figure 3.11: The Iron Age settlement, Phase 4: later Middle Iron Age (c.250/200-150BC)
  • Figure 3.12: The Iron Age settlement, Phase 5: Late Iron Age to early Roman (c.0BC- AD75)
  • Figure 4.4: Group 1: ditch sections for RD2, RD3 and E1
  • Figure 4.5: The western (a: S21, 40 and 29) and eastern (b: S20, 27 and 34) ditch terminals of ring ditch RD3, and a section to the south-east (c: S25, 31 and 34)
  • Figure 4.6: Group 2, roundhouses RD5, RD6, RD16, RD17 and RD33
  • Figure 4.7: Group 2, sections for roundhouse RD5
  • Figure 4.8: The northern ring ditch terminals of roundhouse RD5, the inner ditch, 166 (left) and outer ditch, 167 (right)
  • Figure 4.9: The outer northern ring ditch terminal of RD5, 167, looking north, showing the dark fills containing burnt cobbles