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Excavations at a Mesolithic Site at Downton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Eric Higgs
Eric Higgs
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Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
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The investigations described in the present report owe a main part of their interest to the fact that they help to fill a gap in the prehistory of Wessex, a region which though ranking as the richest in Britain for traces of the later prehistoric cultures based on farming, has hitherto been markedly deficient in evidence for mesolithic settlement. Their other claim to interest is the addition they have made to our very scanty evidence for artificial shelters associated with mesolithic communities in Britain.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 25 , December 1959 , pp. 209 - 232
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1959

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page 228 note 1 According to Mr Ian Longworth (Peterhouse) these include:

(1) Seven sherds less than I inch square of soft flaky ware brown on both faces, with a slightly darker core sometimes grey. Very light tempering with fine flint grit, and some cord.

(2) Four sherds of coarse laminated ware, brown to reddish brown externally and dark brown to black internally, heavily tempered with flint grit; one fragment has parallel, diagonal lines channelled by a blunt instrument. This is typical of the Mortlake phase of Peterborough ware, but the channelled decoration suggests a Rinyo Clacton influence.

(3) Early Bronze Age sherds, reddish brown externally and black internally, decorated by a series of short vertical incised strokes.

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