Excavations at Fin Cop, Derbyshire

An Iron Age Hillfort in Conflict

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21028754
AutoresClive Waddington (0000-0002-6318-5650, York Archaeological Trust, autor de correspondencia), Pauline Beswick, James Brightman, Christopher B Ramsey (0000-0002-8641-9309), Andrew Burns (0000-0001-6868-9615), A Burn, Gordon Cook (0000-0002-7206-6266), L Elliot, Lieut J A G Elliot, Louisa Gidney, Scott Haddow (0000-0002-3970-7447), Andy Hammon, K Harrison (0000-0002-8325-4051), K David Harrison (0000-0002-4002-7668), Kate Mapplethorpe, P Marshall (0000-0002-1949-7702), John Meadows (0000-0002-4346-5591), Ruiha Smalley, A Thornton (0000-0003-4497-7625), Alan Henry Thornton
Año2012
Volumen169
Número1
Páginas159-236
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.2012.11020914
OpenAlexW2019478187
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas59

A programme of archaeological investigation took place on Fin Cop hillfort, in the Derbyshire Peak District, during the summers of 2009 and 2010. In total fifty test-pits and eight trenches were excavated, revealing evidence for a Mesolithic quarry site, and sporadic evidence for Neolithic and Beaker period activity. An assemblage of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age ceramics was recovered from the interior of the fort in association with rock-cut pits testifying to occupation of the hilltop prior to the construction of the hillfort rampart. The hillfort rampart construction took place in the period 435–390 cal. BC (68% probability) and was destroyed before its completion, probably by the mid-fourth century cal. BC, when large numbers of women and children were disposed of in the ditch together with the demolition material from the fort's wall. The defensive character of the monument and the evidence for a violent end to the site appear to indicate, on current evidence, that the fort was sacked

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Assemblage (archaeology) · Beaker · Bronze Age · Ditch · Excavation · Geography · Mesolithic · Period (music) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts