{"product_id":"9780952319696","title":"Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline, 2000 by Annette Hancocks","description":"Archaeological work in advance of pipeline construction  culminated in excavation at four sites on the  Gloucestershire\/Worcestershire border by the Carrant Brook and  River Isbourne. Geophysical and cropmark evidence has been used  to enhance interpretation of the excavated 'slices' across these  sites, revealing a changing pattern of human activity and density  of settlement from the Mesoltihic to the medieval period. Early  features, including a possible Early Neolithic flat grave,  suggest that activity in the area prior to the Middle Iron Age  was largely ritual in nature. From the Middle Iron Age onwards  substantial settlement enclosures were constructed and remained  in use to the end of the 1st century AD, when an increased level  of activity saw some enlarged and others abandoned and replaced.  All four sites were typical of low status Iron Age and Roman  rural settlement in southern England, and all were abandoned by  the 4th century AD, but with some evidence for later Anglo-Saxon  and medieval activity. These excavations add considerably to our  understanding of life and death in the late prehistoric and Roman  periods, and of the distribution of archaeological remains of all  periods, in an area of known archaeological significance close to  the confluence of two major rivers: the Severn and Avon.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295140327797,"sku":"9780952319696","price":14.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780952319696.jpg?v=1762767401","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780952319696","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}