A Bronze Age Round Barrow Cemetery, Pit Alignments, Iron Age Burials, Iron Age Copper Working, and Later Activity at Four Crosses, Llandysilio, Powys

Excavation undertaken at the Upper Severn valley round barrow cemetery at Four Crosses, Llandysilio, Powys, between 2004 and 2006 has increased the known barrows and ring ditches to some twenty-seven monuments within this complex, and revealed additional burials. Based on limited dating evidence, and the data from earlier excavations, the majority of the barrows are thought to be constructed in the Bronze Age. The barrows are considered part of a larger linear cemetery. The landscape setting and wider significance of this linear barrow cemetery are explored within this report. Dating suggests two barrows were later, Iron Age additions. The excavation also investigated Iron Age and undated pit alignments, Middle Iron Age copper working and a small Romano-British inhumation cemetery and field systems. Much of this evidence reflects the continuing importance of the site for ritual and funerary activity

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Excavation · Geography · Iron Age · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Reformed Theology and Governance

• A Route Well Travelled. The archaeology of the A14 Huntingdon to Cambridge Road Improvement Scheme

  Open Access•Emma L West, Headland Archaeology Ltd et al.•Internet Archaeology•2024

  Incluir item

• The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent

  Colin Haselgrove, Rachel Pope•Earlier Iron Age in Britain and…•2006

  Incluir item

• Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England

  Stuart Semple, Sarah Semple•Perceptions of the Prehistoric in…•2013

  Incluir item

• Characterisation of soils by mineral magnetic measurements

  Open Access•Barbara A Maher•Physics of the Earth and…•1986

  Incluir item

• The Stonehenge landscape

  Roger White, Roger H White•The Historic Environment Policy &…•2016

  Incluir item

• Handbook of Archaeological Sciences

  Open Access•Don Brothwell, A Mark Pollard et al.•Handbook of Archaeological Science•2001

  Incluir item

• Monuments and Monumentality in Bronze Age Europe

  Timothy Darvill•The Oxford Handbook Of The…•2013

  Incluir item

• Bone Fragment Size in British Cremation Burials and its Implications for Pyre Technology and Ritual

  Open Access•Jacqueline I Mckinley•Journal of Archaeological Science•1994

  Incluir item

• Recent Research at Duggleby Howe, North Yorkshire

  Alex Gibson, Alex Bayli et al.•Archaeological Journal•2009

  Incluir item

• Plas Gogerddan, Dyfed

  Kenneth Murphy, H N Savory et al.•Archaeological Journal•1992

  Incluir item

• Duggleby Howe Reconsidered

  Ian Kinnes, Timothy Schadla-Hall et al.•Archaeological Journal•1983

  Incluir item

• A Bronze Age barrow cemetery, and associated settlement at Roxton, Bedfordshire

  Alison F Taylor, Peter Woodward et al.•Archaeological Journal•1985

  Incluir item

• Books of Life

  Open Access•Jonathan Last•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•1998

  Incluir item

• Dating the Dead

  Open Access•Duncan Garrow, John Meadows et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2014

  Incluir item

• Excavations at the Sarn-y-bryn-caled cursus complex, Welshpool, Powys, and the timber circles of Great Britain and Ireland

  Open Access•Alex Gibson, Stephen Aldhouse-Green et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1994

  Incluir item

• Eight Ring-ditches at Four Crosses, Llandysilio, Powys, 1981–85

  Walt Warrilow, Glyn Owen et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1986

  Incluir item

• Territorial Patterns in Bronze Age Wessex

  Open Access•A Fleming•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1971

  Incluir item

• Bromfield, Shropshire — Neolithic, Beaker and Bronze Age sites, 1966–79

  Open Access•Clare Stanford, S C Stanford et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1982

  Incluir item

• The Excavation of Two Round Barrows at Trelystan, Powys

  Open Access•William Britnell, T C Darvill et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1982

  Incluir item

• Ritual Enclosures at Whitton Hill, Northumberland

  Open Access•Roger Miket, Margrieta Van Der Veen et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1985

  Incluir item

• Excavations and Metal-working at Llwyn Bryn-dinas Hillfort, Llangedwyn, Clwyd

  Open Access•C R Musson, Chris Musson et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1992

  Incluir item

• Excavation and Survey at Dyffryn Lane Henge Complex, Powys, and a Reconsideration of the Dating of Henges

  Open Access•Alex Gibson•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2010

  Incluir item

• Intcal04 Terrestrial Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0–26 Cal Kyr BP

  Open Access•Paula J Reimer, Mgl Baillie et al.•Radiocarbon•2004

  Incluir item

• Transforming Beaker Culture in North-West Europe; Processes of Fusion and Fission

  Open Access•Stuart Needham•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2005

  Incluir item

• Extended 14 C Data Base and Revised Calib 3.0 14 C Age Calibration Program

  Open Access•Minze Stuiver, Paula J Reimer•Radiocarbon•1993

  Incluir item

• Discussion Reporting of 14 C Data

  Open Access•Minze Stuiver, Henry A Polach•Radiocarbon•1977

  Incluir item

• "Flemming Kaul, "Ships on Bronzes. A Study in Bronze Age Religion and Iconography

  Thomas B Larsson, Thomas Larsson•Norwegian Archaeological Review•2000

  Incluir item