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Shells and Sherds: Identification of Inclusions in Grooved Ware, with Associated Radiocarbon Dates, from Amesbury, Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Rosamund M. J. Cleal ,
John Cooper  and
David Williams
Rosamund M. J. Cleal
Affiliation:
Wessex Archaeology, Portway House, Old Sarum Park, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 6EB
John Cooper
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London
David Williams
Affiliation:
English Heritage Ceramic Petrology Project, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton
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Abstract

This note reports the results of three radiocarbon determinations on material from two pits in Amesbury parish, one of which, Chalk Plaque Pit, has been published in this journal (Harding 1988). The other pit, at Ratfyn, Amesbury, was excavated in the 1930s and published by Stone (1935). As part of the same research project the shell inclusions in Grooved Ware from these features, and from a similar feature at Woodlands (Stone & Young 1948; Stone 1949), were identified and the presence of glauconite in Grooved Ware from the area established.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , 1994 , pp. 445 - 448
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1994

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