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Excavation of pits containing grooved ware at Hillend, Clydesdale district, Strathclyde Region

open access: yesProceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1995
Limited excavations were carried out in advance of pipeline construction in the area between two adjacent  cropmark enclosures at Hillend, near Roberton, Clydesdale District, Strathclyde Region. The principal features comprised three pits which produced an assemblage of Grooved Ware, strengthening the possibility that one of the enclosures may ...
Ian Armit   +7 more
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Carbonised Cereals from Grooved Ware Contexts

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1980
In their report of Durrington Walls, Wainwright and Longworth (1971) comment ‘It is noteworthy that not one certain grain impression has been recorded on any Grooved Ware sherds, nor is there any other evidence for the cultivation of cereals’. They conclude that the economy of Grooved Ware cultures is based on pastoralism and strandlooping rather than ...
Martin Jones
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A Grooved Ware wooden structure at Knowth, Boyne Valley, Ireland

Antiquity, 1994
A new find at Knowth, the site in eastern Ireland famous for its complex of Neolithic passage-tombs, of a wooden structure associated with that enigmatic later Neolithic material, Grooved Ware.
George Eogan, Helen Roche
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Getting into the Groove: Exploring the Relationship between Grooved Ware and Developed Passage Tombs in Ireland c. 3000–2700 cal bc

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2017
This paper examines the relationship between the use of late Irish passage tombs and the development of the British and Irish Grooved Ware complex, including its Orcadian origins. The architectural forms of these passage tombs and their associated material culture, symbolic repertoires, and depositional practices in Ireland and Orkney indicate ...
N. Carlin
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Technological adaptation in Grooved Ware pottery from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, or how to make your cordons stick

Scottish Archaeological Journal, 2015
This paper describes a hitherto unidentified adaptation in Grooved Ware pottery at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney ( Fig. 1 ). The technological technique adopted appears designed to cope with a common problem of Grooved Ware potters at the Ness: that of detached cordons, where applied decorative cordons on the exterior surface of the vessels are knocked ...
Roy Towers, Nick Card
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Refining the Chronology of the Neolithic Settlement at Pool, Sanday, Orkney: Implications for the Emergence and Development of Grooved Ware

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2015
New radiocarbon dates for the Neolithic settlement at Pool on Sanday, Orkney, are interpreted in a formal chronological framework. Phases 2.2 and 2.3, during which flat-based Grooved Ware pottery with incised decoration developed, have been modelled as probably dating to between the 31st and 28th centuries calbc. There followed a hiatus of a century or
MacSween, Ann   +8 more
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Grooved-ware from Knappers Farm, near Glasgow, and from Townhead, Rothesay

open access: yesProceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1952
  
Reay R MacKay
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Late Neolithic Grooved Ware near Cambridge

The Antiquaries Journal, 1943
The site to be described was discovered by the writer in a newly cut ditch three miles south of Cambridge on the Hills Road (fig. I). It was revealed in section as a small pit, about 3 ft. across by 2 ft. deep, sunk into the chalk (fig. 2), and investigation showed that the major part of it had already been removed: when cleared the recess was found to
D. Frère
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Some Grooved Ware Pottery from the Woodhenge area

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1949
In a recent article a description was given of the contents of two pits found by Mr A. St. J. Booth in his garden at Woodlands, Countess Road, Amesbury within 300 yards of the centre of Woodhenge. These pits produced a remarkable assemblage of objects of neolithic B Grooved Ware type, and the apparent care which had been expended upon their deliberate ...
J. Stone
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