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Monument: MYO3649 Heslington East- Bronze Age Cremation (Monument)Field 8 • In southeast of the area a curvilinear feature-best interpreted as the southern part of a circular prehistoric monument, the majority of which lay beyond the excavation area to the south. • To the northwest, at the opposite end of the exc...
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Monument: MYO3647 Heslington East Iron Age (Monument)This Monument appears on the Onsite Archaeology and University Reports Late Iron Age: comprising the square enclosure, containing at least one, and possibly two, roundhouses. The late Iron Age evidence therefore may indicate a resettlement of a...
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Monument: MYO3668 Heslington East Metalworking (Monument)Evidence for metalworking of Iron Age date was also present in Area A1. Group 149 comprised Sets 840-41 and was associated with the establishment of a possible metal-working industry. Furnaces with clay lining, iron slag crucibles, charcoa, a lead s...
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Monument: MYO3646 Heslington East Possible Bronze Age Water Management (Monument)Management and alteration of the natural springs. Field 9: Concentration of waterholes in Trench 2)- represented by several pits & pit features isolated waterholes within Field 8- represented by several pits & pit features The level of water manag...
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Monument: MYO3644 Heslington East Possible Mesolithic Occupation (Monument)Flint suggest seasonal camp site-trench 2 The earliest recorded activity comprised occasional flints dated to the Mesolithic period. Whilst a substantial proportion of these were recovered from much later features and deposits, Trench 2 does appe...
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Monument: MYO3645 Heslington East Possible Neolithic occupation (Monument)The Neolithic period is represented by a small quantity of diagnostic worked flint. However, no excavated features could confidently be assigned a date within this period Within Area B6, to the southeast of the main northern spine road investigations...
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Monument: MYO3667 Heslington East Spring and Water Management Feature (Monument)North-Western portion of A1: Large pits, some with wicker revetments, which appear to have related to the accessing of water at springhead. Bronze Age to Roman. Activity around the A1 waterhole continued into the Early Iron Age. A series of north-so...
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Monument: MYO3671 Heslington East: Iron Age ladder settlement (Monument)Iron Age ladder settlement with two enclosures (one in area containing roundhouses and ring-gullies). Evidence of metalworking see related monument file. At least three internal ring ditches are visible as soilmarks during open area excavations o...
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Monument: MYO3674 Heslington East: Field System (Monument)A lattice like field system was located across much of area A2. This system established in the Iron Age underwent a series of alterations and seems to have continued in use into the early Roman period
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Monument: MYO3673 Heslington East: Roman Cremation (Monument)In Area A1: Group 68 was comprised of a cremation. The fill, a friable, mid orangey brown clayey-sand contained large amounts of charcoal and 426g of burnt bone together with fragments pottery