Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire : The Evolution of a South Midlands...

by Elizabeth Popescu, Gareth Rees, Dan Stansbie, Rob Atkins

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Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire : The Evolution of a South Midlands Landscape, Hardcover by Atkins, Robert C., Popescu, Elizabeth; Rees, Gareth; Stansbie, Dan; Allen, Leigh (CON), ISBN 190758806X, ISBN-13 9781907588068, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Extensive excavations near the village of Broughton, which lies on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, revealed the fluctuating fortunes of neighbouring settlements from the Iron Age to the medieval period. A middle Iron Age hamlet was succeeded in the 1st century BC by various farmsteads which were at their height in the early Roman period. Associated with these were richly furnished cremation cemeteries of Aylesford(-Swarling) type, with burial continuing into the Romano-British period. The cemeteries provide the largest group of such burials yet found in Buckinghamshire and reflect the position of Broughton within the territory of the Catuvellauni. Cremation burial ceased in the mid 2nd century and two of the farmsteads were abandoned soon afterwards. The main settlement continued to develop during the late Roman period, while a new farmstead nearby survived into the early 5th century. Elsewhere, a cluster of sunken-featured buildings yielded early Saxon pottery in Roman form and possible feasting waste. These settlements were in turn abandoned, to be replaced after the Norman Conquest by a farmstead and surrounding ridge and furrow field system which formed an outlying part of the village that had, by the time o

• Publisher: Oxford Archaeological Unit
• Year: 2014
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781907588068
• Condition: Fine

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