ABCD: 1417

Brean Down 83-7 Weston-super-Mare

Site code:

1417

Site details:

Location: Brean Down 83-7, Weston-super-Mare, 1990, Somerset, England ST285589
Period: Neolithic to post medieval
Category: complex settlement
Notes: extensive bulk sieving- several contexts with no plant remains
Topography: coastal promontory carb limestone
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography

Straker V. 1990. Charred plant macrofossils. 211-9. In: Bell M (ed.) Brean Down Excavations 1983-1987. English Heritage Monograph 15. England, Somerset

Processed by

VS - Straker, Vanessa: DUA London/Bristol Univ

Samples:

Sample	Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
1417a	PH.NE:BA.BE	Unit 8a (2	buried soil	reddish brown clay	neolithic/beaker	-3790	-1510
1417b	PH.NE:BA.BE	Unit 7 (2)	occupation layer	sand layer	?Beaker?	-2185	-1680
1417c	PH.BA.EB	Unit 6b (1	colluvium	nr	early Bronze Age	-2865	-1985
1417d	PH.BA.EB:MB	Unit 6a (1	occupation layer	nr	early-mid Bronze Age	-1610	-420
1417e	PH.BA.EB:MB	Unit 6a (2	?	nr	early to mid Bronze Age	-1870	-1430
1417f	PH.BA.MB:LB	Unit 5b (1	occupation layer	nr	mid to late Bronze Age	-2020	-840
1417g	PH.BA.LB	Unit 4 (1)	occupation layer	nr	late Bronze Age	-1940	-800

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