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

Proceedings 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, Trevor Cowie, Ian Ralston, Sheila Boardman, Ann Clarke, Geraint Coles, Bill Finlayson, Martin Wilson   +7 more
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Maeshowe and the winter solstice: ceremonial aspects of the Orkney Grooved Ware culture

Antiquity, 1997
A generation ago, enquiries into the astronomical and mathematical knowledge of the standing stone-erectors of prehistoric Britain dealt largely with statistical patterns. Since then, the great passage grave at Newgrange, eastern Ireland, has proved to be engineered to address the midwinter sunrise. It is time once more to look at another great chamber
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Shells and Sherds: Identification of Inclusions in Grooved Ware, with Associated Radiocarbon Dates, from Amesbury, Wiltshire

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1994
This note reports the results of three radiocarbon determinations on material from two pits in Amesbury parish, one of which, Chalk Plaque Pit, has been published in this journal (Harding 1988). The other pit, at Ratfyn, Amesbury, was excavated in the 1930s and published by Stone (1935).
Rosamund M. J. Cleal, John Cooper, David Williams   +2 more
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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 ...
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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, Hunter, John, Sheridan, Alison, Bond, Julie M, Bronk Ramsey, Christopher, Reimer, Paula J, Bayliss, Alex, Griffiths, Seren, Whittle, Alasdair   +8 more
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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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Black Henbane ( L.) in the Scottish Neolithic: A Re-evaluation of Palynological Findings from Grooved Ware Pottery at Balfarg Riding School and Henge, Fife

Journal of Archaeological Science, 1999
Abstract Re-analysis of the pollen and macrofossil content of residues adhering to sherds of Grooved Ware, excavated from the Balfarg/Balbirnie ceremonial complex (Barclay & Russell-White, 1993), was undertaken to assess the methodology and techniques in analyses on unconventional deposits of this type and also to examine evidence for the use of ...
Deborah J. Long, Paula Milburn, M.Jane Bunting, Richard Tipping, Timothy G. Holden   +4 more
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The Return of the Rinyo-Clacton Folk? The Cultural Significance of the Grooved Ware Complex in Later Neolithic Britain

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2010
The Grooved Ware complex in Later Neolithic Britain has proved a perplexing phenomenon for prehistorians. While originally identified by Stuart Piggott as one of a series of ‘Secondary Neolithic Cultures’, it was later recognized as a special-purpose assemblage, connected with inter-regional contacts between socially pre-eminent groups.
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