The Maddle Farm Project: An Integrated Survey of Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes on the Berkshire DownsAn experimental field survey of a large area of the Berkshire Downs, south of Uffington, achieved by intensive field walking of selected sample areas, and some excavation. Reveals the nature of the Prehistoric and Roman landscape. |
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3 The results of widespaced rewalking on three consecutive years | 20 |
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agricultural arable archaeological record arrowheads artefact associated Berkshire Downs bones century Clay with Flints concentrations context CORES PER HECTARE deposits ditch enclosure evidence excavation fabric field survey FLAKES PER HECTARE flint flint assemblage forthc fragments grammes grey hammerstones HECTARE indicate intensive collection Iron Age KILOMETRES Knighton Bushes Knighton Bushes settlement Lambourn land lithic reduction long barrow lynchet Maddle Farm project Maddle Farm villa Maddle villa manuring MEAN NUMBER MEAN WEIGHT metres Neolithic NUMBER OF CORES NUMBER OF FLAKES NUMBER OF TOOLS off-site plough Post Down Farm pottery densities pottery distribution PRIMARY FLAKES prismatic blade quarry RETOUCHED FLAKES RETOUCHED TOOLS Richards river Lambourn Roman period Roman pottery Romano-British sample sandy ware sarsen scatter scrapers SECONDARY FLAKES Seven Barrows sherds sieved soilmark stratified sub surface suggested surface collection surface pottery survey area Table TERTIARY FLAKES TOOLS PER HECTARE topsoil TOTAL NUMBER Trench 9 unstratified Upper Chalk Waylands Smithy