Site Report for the 2010 Excavation at 26 Woodside Road, St. Anne's, Bristol

by

Ken Taylor

book front cover


Published by Brislington Community Archaeology Project
Publication date September 2012
Booklet 297x200mm
Illustrated - 4 pages colour photographs, 4 maps
20 pages




This was the third excavation carried out by the Brislington Community Archaeology Project (BCAP), which formed in March 2009. The one metre square test pit was located in the back garden of a residential property, and the soil was found to have been disturbed in the mid-20th century, right down to the bedrock at a depth of 1m.

The oldest finds were the circa 3000 BCE flint blade fragment and flint flakes, which suggest both tool-making and tool-using activity on this site during the Neolithic period. Also found was an assemblage of broken Pennant Sand Sandstone and fragments of haematite, which is characteristic of the early stages in an industrial processing – smashing the rock to extract its embedded veins of iron ore. The abundance of both the waste Pennant and fragments of haematite indicates the separation process took place at or very close to the site.




Contents include...

Introduction
Site location
Historical background
Previous work on the site
Methodology & excavation narrative
Finds
Interpretation of the excavation
Conclusion
Ideas for improving methodology
Proposals for future work
Appendix - catalogue of finds
Bibliography






Text © Ken Taylor 2012 - 2013


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