South Cadbury

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South Cadbury is an archaeological site in Somerset, England, known for its historical significance during the early medieval period. It features evidence of settlement and fortification, including a prominent hillfort, and is associated with Arthurian legends, contributing to the study of early British history and archaeology.

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Prehistoric ceramics and associated radiocarbon dating from the hinterland of South Cadbury, Somerset, England: Part 1: Chronological framework and character of the Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age pottery

by Richard Tabor and

2023, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

This first of three papers presenting selected prehistoric pottery and associated radiocarbon dates from the landscape surrounding Cadbury Castle, Somerset, covers periods from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Ceramic... more

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Sigwells, Charlton Horethorne: the identification, interpretation and testing of Bronze Age to early medieval landscapes by geophysical survey and excavation

by Richard Tabor

2023, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 144

A pilot study for the South Cad bury Environs Project demonstrated that extensive geophysical survey can identify successive systems ofland division from which different social, economic and subsistence activities can be inferred. Six... more

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South Cadbury: The Last of the Bronze Shields?

by Richard Tabor

2023, Archäologische Korrespondenzblatt

The archaeological excavation of a Bronze Age shield is an almost unprecedented event. So, too, is to find one within a stratified sequence along with bones and pottery. Such an occurrence happened during excavations at »Milsom’s Corner«... more

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| Fig. 1 Location of Cadbury Castle (Somerset) and Bronze Age en- closures. — (Map R. Tabor). SOUTH CADBURY: THE LAST OF THE BRONZE SHIELDS? STUART P. NEEDHAM - PETER NORTHOVER - MARION UCKELMANN RICHARD TABOR

Fig. 2. The South Cadbury shield. — (Photo S. Minnitt, Museum of Somerset, Taunton).

Fig. 5 Yetholm (Roxburghshire): a bronze shield (NMS Accession no. DN 1). Metallographic section of sample ED901 showing re- crystallised grain structure with cold work (x 500). — b bronze shield (NMS Accession no. DN 2). Metallographic section of sample ED905 showing recrystallised grain structure and un-dissolved eutectoid (x 500). — (Photos P. Northover).

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Tab. 1. Milsom’s Corner, South Cadbury (Somerset). The ditch fill zones.

Tab. 2. Milsom’s Corner, South Cadbury (Somerset). Radiocarbon dates on animal bones and a cereal grain from the ditch.

Tab. 3 Metal compositions of the Cadbury shield fragments analysed. See the appendix for methods

Tab. 4 Comparative analyses of bronze shields. — Analyses were by electron probe microanalysis using the methods in the appendix, except for those analyses made at the British Museum by atomic absorption spectrophotometry, and those at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, by optical emission spectroscopy. A comparison of these methods of analysis can be found in Northover / Rychner 1998.

Tab. 5 Radiocarbon dates for Bronze Age shields, formers for their production and shield models.

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Early Neolithic Pits at Cadbury Castle and an adjoining temporary occupation site at Milsom's Corner, South Cadbury

by Richard Tabor

2023, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 161

During five seasons of excavations directed by Leslie Alcock from 1966 to 1970 on the multiperiod hillfort at South Cadbury Castle proven and possible Early Neolithic postholes and pits were identified in several trenches on the plateau,... more

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Hicknoll Slait 2001

by John Davey

2015, Tabor R (ed.) 2002. South Cadbury Environs Project; Interim fieldwork report, 1998-2001. University of Bristol; Centre for the Historic Environment. 80-99

Figure 5.30: Trench 4 plan (F008 & F009 unexcavated, F007 half sectioned)

The Carbonised Plant Macrofossils John Davev Details of the cereals and wild species identified from bulk sieving are given in table 1. While cereal grains and fragments of grains were recovered from sieving, they were generally poorly preserved and no chaff was recovered. Chaff allows more reliable identification of cereal species than grain morphology. Therefore identification could not be certain in many cases. No cereal grain could be identified beyond the level of genus and sometimes the particular genus could not be distinguished. These were recorded as Cereal sp. or Triticum/Hordeum sp. (wheat/barley).

Significant amounts of charcoal were recovered from both graves and the later pit cut into grave 2 (1008). 1 fragment of charcoal was recovered from the upper fill of the prehistoric ditch (4002) and none from the posthole cut into the ditch (4003 & 4004). Table 2 lists the contexts from which charcoal was recovered and the percentage of charcoal per total volume of flot

Charcoal It has been noted above that the soil filling the graves was active, supporting burrowing molluscs and worms that tend to mix modern material with archaeological. It is possible that charred remains from stubble burning could become incorporated into archaeological contexts in this way. However stubble burning should not char the root tubers of wild grasses. recovered.

Nevertheless, it is possible to distinguish four broad phases of human activity on the site. Table 4 — Mollusca recovered for HS 2001 (note that these had been picked from different weight of sample) There was very little in the way of stratigraphy surviving on the site. Ploughing in recent times, as deep as the bedrock in places, has truncated and probably destroyed many features. Where there is surviving stratigraphy it occurs in discreet negative rock cut features that cannot be related to one another.

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