Linear earthwork, tribal boundary and ritual beheading : Aves Ditch from the Iron Age to the early Middle Ages /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2005.
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| Series: | BAR British series ;
402. |
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Table of Contents:
- Scope and structure of the fieldwork report
- History of research
- The Iron Age enclosure pre-dating Aves ditch and other settlement in the vicinity
- The construction of Aves ditch
- The date of Aves ditch
- A road or a boundary marker?
- A Roman linear barrier?
- A tribal boundary?
- Artificial barriers at tribal and political boundaries
- From Aves ditch to the Antonine wall? The evolution of linear barriers in the ancient world
- Aves ditch in the Roman and post-Roman period
- The beheaded skeleton
- Burial in the ditch and beheading: attempt at an explanation
- Conclusions: Aves ditch, a puzzle solved
- or a perpetual enigma?
- Specialists' reports
- The contexts
- The pottery
- Archaeomagnetic dating at Aves ditch
- The coin
- The glass fragment
- Human bones
- Animal bones
- Land snails from Aves ditch.