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Later Bronze Age Downland Economy and Excavations at Black Patch, East Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Peter Drewett ,
A. B. Ellison ,
C. R. Cartwright ,
P. Hinton  and
T. P. O'Connor
Peter Drewett
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University of London
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Abstract

The Later Bronze Age site at Black Patch consisted of hut platforms and enclosures set in a system of rectangular fields. The settlement area is overlooked by round barrows. Area and sample excavations of the settlement revealed circular huts and activity areas within a C-14 date range of 1070 ± 70 bc–830 ± 80 bc. Extensive economic data in the form of seeds, animal bones, foreign stones and artefacts were recovered. These formed the basis of an economic resource-area analysis undertaken around Black Patch and other contemporary occupation sites on the South Downs. From this an economic activity model is proposed.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 1982 , pp. 321 - 400
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1982

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