Gary Lock, Christopher Gosden, Patrick Daly

Segsbury Camp*: Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age Hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume describes the two seasons of excavation at Segsbury Camp which form a part of Oxford University's Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project. It contains background material and a series of interpretations of the site at different scales finishing with a discussion of the Lambourn Downs landscape in later prehistoric and Romano-British times. The evidence suggests that the large hillfort of Segsbury was used during the period 6th to 2nd century BC but was not densely and permanently occupied. It also seems that Segsbury was constructed in a new and previously unused area of the Downs. Alternative interpretations are explored within a framework of trying to understand what is meant by 'community' and how Segsbury articulated with other hillforts in the area. The detail provided by the excavation of several hillforts on the Lambourn Downs suggests that they were different forms of monument and argues against trying to understand hillforts as a single category.

Produktdetails

• Oxford University School of Ar
• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOL
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 918g
• ISBN-13: 9780947816681
• ISBN-10: 0947816682
• Artikelnr.: 21381541

Autorenporträt

Gary Lock is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology especially Geographical Information Systems, their application and theoretical aspects (current interests are modelling visibility and movement).