Stanwick, North Yorkshire, Part 3
Excavations on earthworks sites 1981–86
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11616258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Haselgrove (corresponding author), C C Haselgrove, Pamela Lowther, P C Lowther, Percival Turnbull, Lindsay Allason‐Jones, L Allason-Jones, R Leon Fitts, Elizabeth Healey (0000-0002-9700-1143), P Howard, Jennifer Price (0009-0003-7135-6899), A N Marlow, A Marlow, D James Rackham, Steven Willis (0000-0002-1944-0546), S H Willis |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 147 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-90 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.1990.11077940 |
| OpenAlex | W2312394878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This report outlines the results of excavations carried out on the Stanwick earthworks in four different areas between 1981–86. At Forcett, area investigation recovered more of the structural plan of the north-western entrance investigated by Wheeler in 1951. Both here and in the Tofts, earlier deposits and features were recognized beneath the ramparts. Wheeler's idea that the Tofts settlement originated as a defended enclosure can no longer be sustained, and geophysical survey has indicated that its southern defences in fact follow a different line from that originally envisaged. Other excavations took place at Henah Hill, where a low bank underlies a long sequence of agricultural activity, itself sealed by the medieval ridge-and-furrow; and at Forcett Barns. The date and context of the earthworks are briefly reviewed in the light of the recent work at Stanwick. The main defensive earthworks were all probably constructed within a relatively short period around the mid first century A.D., when the long-lived settlement was at its most important
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Earthworks · Enclosure · Excavation · Geography · Geotechnical engineering · Period (music · Ridge · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · Geology · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2013 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |