Lowbury Hill, Oxon: a Re-Assessment of the Probable Romano-Celtic Temple and the Anglo-Saxon Barrow
Lowbury Hill, Oxon: a Re-Assessment of the Probable Romano-Celtic Temple and the Anglo-Saxon Barrow
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劳伯里山,奥克森:对可能的罗马凯尔特神庙和盎格鲁撒克逊巴罗的重新评估
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10.1080/00665983.1994.11078122
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1994
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M. Tingle
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M. Fulford;S. Rippon;D. Allen;J. Allen;S. J. Allen;Janet Firth;C. Gaffney;J. Gater;S. Hamilton‐Dyer;H. Härke;J. Kaminski;D. Richards;Elizabeth Somerville;J. Timby;M. Tingle
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made by D. A. Atkinson in 1913–14 affirms the sacred character of the Romano-British enclosure and the probability that it was the site of a Romano-Celtic temple from the second century A.D. Despite the limited findings of the early work, re-excavation showed the extensive survival of archaeological deposits, particularly negative features cut into the chalk. A radiocarbon date for the robbing of the temenos wall between the late sixth and mid seventh century and finds of Pagan Saxon pottery provide an opportunity for a reassessment of the seventh-century ‘warrior’ bur...