E Cecil Curwen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 324836 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E Cecil Curwen |
| NOMBRES | E Cecil |
| APELLIDO | Curwen |
| FIRMA | CURWEN E C |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1927 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Report of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Brighton in 1959
A sickle-flint from Seaford, Sussex
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A Bronze Cauldron from Sompting, Sussex
During the autumn of 1946 a hoard of bronzes was discovered during excavation for foundations in the bottom of a down-land valley in the parish of Sompting, near Worthing. The site is a point approximately 300 ft. north-east of Hill Barn and 1,500 ft. south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring, and is on property belonging to Hill Barn Nurseries. The bronzes were unearthed by a mechanical excavator at a depth of about 5 ft. in a valley-bot…
A Hand-Axe from the Chichester Gravels
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Evidence of Early Ploughing from Holland
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The Furrows in Prehistoric Fields in Denmark (Plate VIII)
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A Vertical Water-Mill Near Salonika (see Plates III-IV)
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Plano-convex knife with corn-gloss
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The Problem of Early Water-mills
In previous papers the writer has suggested that, according to such evidence as is available, the rotary quern must have been derived from the large and heavy donkey-mill of Greece and Rome (1), and Childe has further suggested that this development may have been brought about through the adaptation of the rotary principle to small portable mills suitable for the use of armies in the field (2). Thus legionaries, upon demobilization, would carry t…
Roman Lead Cistern from Pulborough, Sussex
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Harvesting Implements in Denmark
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The Efficiency of a Flint Sickle
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Perforated Rim-lugs from Friston, Sussex
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Some Food-gathering Implements. A Study in Mesolithic Tradition
Communities which depend for their existence wholly or largely on food-gathering (agriophages)-hunting, fishing, and the gathering of wild vegetable products-use implements that differ somewhat from those used by food-producing peoples (trophogens) who live by agriculture and pastoralism. Actually it is seldom, if ever, possible to draw a hard-and-fast line between the two economies; we ourselves, for instance, with our highly industrialized food…
More about Querns
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The Significance of the Pentatonic Scale in Scottish Song
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An Iron Age site at Aignish, near Sternoway
The remains of an Iron Age site comprised a hearth between the footings for two small walls and a midden heap. Find included pottery sherds, a bone comb, animal bone, a large iron rivet, a flat piece of iron and bloomery cinder
The Plough and the Origin of Strip-Lynchets
N their recent work, The Open Fields, C. S. and C. S. Orwin devote an appendix to the question of the origin of lynchets, in which they express their difficulties in accepting the current theory that narrow, step-like terraces like those at Bishopstone (Wilts.), for instance, could have been formed as a result of ploughing (PLATE I, facing p. 49). In private correspondence they assure me that these difficulties are widely shared by other agricult…
The Early Development of Agriculture in Britain
The discovery of agriculture marks the greatest advance in the history of mankind— comparable only to that which has followed the discovery of electricity and the invention of steam and internal combustion engines. It is now well recognised that without agriculture man was a food-gatherer, dependent on nature's supplies in hunting, fishing and gathering wild plants, whereas with agriculture he has become a food -producer, able to augment nature's…
A Sickle-flint from near Rye, Sussex
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Early Agriculture in Denmark
There is perhaps no branch of archaeology of more fundamentalimportance than the study of the rise and development of agricul ture, seeing that it has been the governing factor in the Natural History of Man from the time of its introduction down to the Industrial Era. But the study of the evidence from Britain is not enough; hence Professor Hatt's full and clear exposition of the Danish evidence is of special importance to British archaeologists,…
The Hebrides
In our efforts to reconstruct the life of vanished peoples and cultures we often find ourselves making comparisons with the implements and customs of modern primitive peoples. This practice seems, with due safeguards, reasonably sound, for similar cultural conditions may produce similar cultural phenomena. Our comparative material is usually sought among the backward races of the tropics, less frequently in parts of Europe that are off the beaten…
The Archaeology of Sussex
Querns
When excavating in the hill-fort of Cissbury a few years ago the writer found nothing by which to date a certain group of pits except a piece of a revolving handmill (FIG. 23). Even this could not supply the necessary chronological evidence, because the developmental history of the quern or hand-mill had not yet been worked out in sufficient detail to enable one to say that a certain form is characteristic of a certain period. Being thus impresse…
The Lighter Side of Archaeology
Archaeology emphatically has its lighter side, though this is not always recognized by the lay public. The antiquary of the past was looked upon as a musty old bore-the reverse of entertaining company, while the modern archaeologist is apt to be depicted in the humorous press as an immature individual of either sex, dull, myopic and dowdy
Prehistoric Flint Sickles
So much interest was aroused by my recent paper on 'Prehistoric Agriculture' in vol. I of ANTIQUITYth, at it may be worth while to expand and add to what was there said on the subject of flint sickles. The most comprehensive study of the subject comes from the pen of M. André Vayson de Pradenne whose paper must first be reviewed.The author sets out by describing an almost perfect example of a flint sickle, consisting of five carefully worked flak…
Querns
When excavating in the hill-fort of Cissbury a few years ago the writer found nothing by which to date a certain group of pits except a piece of a revolving handmill (FIG. 23). Even this could not supply the necessary chronological evidence, because the developmental history of the quern or hand-mill had not yet been worked out in sufficient detail to enable one to say that a certain form is characteristic of a certain period. Being thus impresse…
The Archaeology of Sussex
Excavations in Whitehawk Neolithic Camp, Brighton, 1932–3
Whitehawk Camp, situated on the Brighton Race-course, is one of the eight proved neolithic camps of ‘causewayed’ type in Britain. It consists of four concentric oval rings of interrupted ditches, situated on a saddle between two slight eminences on the back of a north–south ridge on the eastern edge of the town of Brighton. The outermost ring (fourth ditch), which is deficient on the east where the hill falls very steeply into Whitehawk Bottom, e…
The Date of Cissbury Camp
The hill-fort of Cissbury, situated on a ridge of the Sussex Downs four miles north of Worthing, is one of the best known examples of its kind, though in regard to the strength of its defences it can scarcely be compared with such Wessex forts as Maiden Castle (Dorchester), Hambledon, Yarnbury, or Battlesbury
Late Bronze Age Lynchet-Settlements on Plumpton Plain, Sussex
Plumpton plain is situated on the top of the South Downs, roughly 600 feet above sea level, six miles north-east of Brighton and four miles north-west of Lewes (fig. 1). From its western end a broad spur slopes gently southwards from the northern escarpment of the Downs, lying between Moustone Valley on the south-east and Faulkners Bottom on the west. Most of this Downland is covered with a dense scrub of gorse, thorn and bramble, and with large …
The Problem of Early Water-mills
In previous papers the writer has suggested that, according to such evidence as is available, the rotary quern must have been derived from the large and heavy donkey-mill of Greece and Rome (1), and Childe has further suggested that this development may have been brought about through the adaptation of the rotary principle to small portable mills suitable for the use of armies in the field (2). Thus legionaries, upon demobilization, would carry t…
The Hebrides
In our efforts to reconstruct the life of vanished peoples and cultures we often find ourselves making comparisons with the implements and customs of modern primitive peoples. This practice seems, with due safeguards, reasonably sound, for similar cultural conditions may produce similar cultural phenomena. Our comparative material is usually sought among the backward races of the tropics, less frequently in parts of Europe that are off the beaten…
Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex
The examination of the prehistoric hill-fort known as Hollingbury was undertaken during March and April, 1931, by the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Club, with the permission of the Brighton Corporation and with the sanction of Mr. B. H. Maclaren, Superintendent of Parks and Gardens. We also have to express our great gratitude to those Societies and individuals whose generous contributions made the undertaking possible, and to others who render…
A Bronze Cauldron from Sompting, Sussex
During the autumn of 1946 a hoard of bronzes was discovered during excavation for foundations in the bottom of a down-land valley in the parish of Sompting, near Worthing. The site is a point approximately 300 ft. north-east of Hill Barn and 1,500 ft. south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring, and is on property belonging to Hill Barn Nurseries. The bronzes were unearthed by a mechanical excavator at a depth of about 5 ft. in a valley-bot…
Agriculture and the Flint Sickle in Palestine
It does not seem to have been contested, and therefore one may assume that it is generally agreed, that the discovery of the remains of a sickle in an ancient deposit is evidence that its owner knew how to grow corn. The forms that sickles took prior to the use of metal have been ably classified by M. Vayson de Pradenne in an article which was reviewed and summarized in ANTIQUITY in June 1930, and as a result of his work the characteristics of th…
Excavations on Thundersbarrow Hill, Sussex
In pursuance of its policy of making small exploratory excavations in as many as possible of the prehistoric sites near Brighton, the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Club examined the earthworks on Thundersbarrow Hill during the spring of 1932. This was very largely made possible by generous contributions from numerous individuals as well as from the Sussex Archaeological Society, in addition to which valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. G. P…
Neolithic Camps
It is extremely difficult to eradicate erroneous popular beliefs. Among such should be numbered the tendency hastily to attribute prehistoric hill-forts either to the Stone Age or to the Romans, most of such forts having in all probability been reared by the people of the Early Iron Age. The rapid progress of British prehistoric archaeology during the last two decades has shown this clearly, but it has also shown that the popular belief in the ex…
Prehistoric Agriculture in Britain
The importance of the part played by agriculture in the economic history of our country is sometimes apt to be forgotten, for its place has, during the past hundred years, been largely taken by manufacture. Down to the beginning of the nineteenth century the bulk of the population still made a living by tilling the fields, just as their fathers had done from time immemorial. It becomes, therefore, a matter of great interest to trace the beginning…
The Plough and the Origin of Strip-Lynchets
N their recent work, The Open Fields, C. S. and C. S. Orwin devote an appendix to the question of the origin of lynchets, in which they express their difficulties in accepting the current theory that narrow, step-like terraces like those at Bishopstone (Wilts.), for instance, could have been formed as a result of ploughing (PLATE I, facing p. 49). In private correspondence they assure me that these difficulties are widely shared by other agricult…
The Hollingbury rampart palisades
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Roman Lead Cistern from Pulborough, Sussex
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More about Querns
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Some Food-gathering Implements. A Study in Mesolithic Tradition
Communities which depend for their existence wholly or largely on food-gathering (agriophages)-hunting, fishing, and the gathering of wild vegetable products-use implements that differ somewhat from those used by food-producing peoples (trophogens) who live by agriculture and pastoralism. Actually it is seldom, if ever, possible to draw a hard-and-fast line between the two economies; we ourselves, for instance, with our highly industrialized food…
Tribulum-Flint From Sussex
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Ancient Cultivations
The ability to recognize the traces of ancient cultivation is essential to all students of earthworks and field-workers. The scope of our study is being widened, so that we are interested not merely in fortifications but in any kind of interference with the surface soil resulting from man's activities in the past. It would be purely an arbitrary distinction to be interested in a hill-fort and not in the surface traces of an agricultural village o…
Prehistoric Agriculture in Britain
The importance of the part played by agriculture in the economic history of our country is sometimes apt to be forgotten, for its place has, during the past hundred years, been largely taken by manufacture. Down to the beginning of the nineteenth century the bulk of the population still made a living by tilling the fields, just as their fathers had done from time immemorial. It becomes, therefore, a matter of great interest to trace the beginning…
Prehistoric Sussex
Notices of Archaeological Publications
Neolithic Camps
It is extremely difficult to eradicate erroneous popular beliefs. Among such should be numbered the tendency hastily to attribute prehistoric hill-forts either to the Stone Age or to the Romans, most of such forts having in all probability been reared by the people of the Early Iron Age. The rapid progress of British prehistoric archaeology during the last two decades has shown this clearly, but it has also shown that the popular belief in the ex…
Prehistoric Flint Sickles
So much interest was aroused by my recent paper on 'Prehistoric Agriculture' in vol. I of ANTIQUITYth, at it may be worth while to expand and add to what was there said on the subject of flint sickles. The most comprehensive study of the subject comes from the pen of M. André Vayson de Pradenne whose paper must first be reviewed.The author sets out by describing an almost perfect example of a flint sickle, consisting of five carefully worked flak…
The Date of Cissbury Camp
The hill-fort of Cissbury, situated on a ridge of the Sussex Downs four miles north of Worthing, is one of the best known examples of its kind, though in regard to the strength of its defences it can scarcely be compared with such Wessex forts as Maiden Castle (Dorchester), Hambledon, Yarnbury, or Battlesbury
Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex
The examination of the prehistoric hill-fort known as Hollingbury was undertaken during March and April, 1931, by the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Club, with the permission of the Brighton Corporation and with the sanction of Mr. B. H. Maclaren, Superintendent of Parks and Gardens. We also have to express our great gratitude to those Societies and individuals whose generous contributions made the undertaking possible, and to others who render…
Ancient Cultivations
The ability to recognize the traces of ancient cultivation is essential to all students of earthworks and field-workers. The scope of our study is being widened, so that we are interested not merely in fortifications but in any kind of interference with the surface soil resulting from man's activities in the past. It would be purely an arbitrary distinction to be interested in a hill-fort and not in the surface traces of an agricultural village o…
Excavations on Thundersbarrow Hill, Sussex
In pursuance of its policy of making small exploratory excavations in as many as possible of the prehistoric sites near Brighton, the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Club examined the earthworks on Thundersbarrow Hill during the spring of 1932. This was very largely made possible by generous contributions from numerous individuals as well as from the Sussex Archaeological Society, in addition to which valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. G. P…
The Hollingbury rampart palisades
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Celtic Earthworks of Salisbury Plain, based on air-photographs. Map of Old Sarum District. Scale 1
Celtic Earthworks of Salisbury Plain, based on air-photographs. Map of Old Sarum District. Scale 1 : 25,000. Southampton : Ordnance Survey. 1934. 1s. 6d. to 4s., according to mounting. - Volume 14 Issue 3
Excavations in Whitehawk Neolithic Camp, Brighton, 1932–3
Whitehawk Camp, situated on the Brighton Race-course, is one of the eight proved neolithic camps of ‘causewayed’ type in Britain. It consists of four concentric oval rings of interrupted ditches, situated on a saddle between two slight eminences on the back of a north–south ridge on the eastern edge of the town of Brighton. The outermost ring (fourth ditch), which is deficient on the east where the hill falls very steeply into Whitehawk Bottom, e…
A Flint Sickle-flake from Selmeston, Sussex
Apart from the Scandinavian crescentic flint sickles recently described by Dr. Grahame Clark ( Proc. Preh. Soc. E. Anglia , vii, 67–81) we are not aware that any demonstrable flint sickle-blades have yet been observed in Britain. It is therefore all the more interesting that in the sand-pit at Selmeston, Sussex, where Dr. Clark has excavated mesolithic dwelling-pits later occupied by Peterborough folk ( Antiq. Journ. xiv, 134), there has lately c…
A Saxon hut-site at Thakeham, Sussex
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A Flint-Miner's Dwelling and a Bronze Age Farm in Sussex
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Spear-Throwing with a Cord
Late Bronze Age Lynchet-Settlements on Plumpton Plain, Sussex
Plumpton plain is situated on the top of the South Downs, roughly 600 feet above sea level, six miles north-east of Brighton and four miles north-west of Lewes (fig. 1). From its western end a broad spur slopes gently southwards from the northern escarpment of the Downs, lying between Moustone Valley on the south-east and Faulkners Bottom on the west. Most of this Downland is covered with a dense scrub of gorse, thorn and bramble, and with large …
Agriculture and the Flint Sickle in Palestine
It does not seem to have been contested, and therefore one may assume that it is generally agreed, that the discovery of the remains of a sickle in an ancient deposit is evidence that its owner knew how to grow corn. The forms that sickles took prior to the use of metal have been ably classified by M. Vayson de Pradenne in an article which was reviewed and summarized in ANTIQUITY in June 1930, and as a result of his work the characteristics of th…
Non-Crescentic Sickle-Flints from Sussex
The view that diffuse lustre on the sharp edge of a flint indicates that the flint has been used for cutting corn, or at least grass, has often been put forward. It has recently been criticized by M. René Neuville, and these criticisms have been countered by fresh experimental evidence which has convinced the writer that this interpretation holds good. Flint flakes, some worked, some apparently unworked, are frequently found in Egypt, Palestine, …
The Archaeology of Sussex
Querns
When excavating in the hill-fort of Cissbury a few years ago the writer found nothing by which to date a certain group of pits except a piece of a revolving handmill (FIG. 23). Even this could not supply the necessary chronological evidence, because the developmental history of the quern or hand-mill had not yet been worked out in sufficient detail to enable one to say that a certain form is characteristic of a certain period. Being thus impresse…
The Lighter Side of Archaeology
Archaeology emphatically has its lighter side, though this is not always recognized by the lay public. The antiquary of the past was looked upon as a musty old bore-the reverse of entertaining company, while the modern archaeologist is apt to be depicted in the humorous press as an immature individual of either sex, dull, myopic and dowdy
Tribulum-Flint From Sussex
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The Calleva of Eppillus
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The Early Development of Agriculture in Britain
The discovery of agriculture marks the greatest advance in the history of mankind— comparable only to that which has followed the discovery of electricity and the invention of steam and internal combustion engines. It is now well recognised that without agriculture man was a food-gatherer, dependent on nature's supplies in hunting, fishing and gathering wild plants, whereas with agriculture he has become a food -producer, able to augment nature's…
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