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I just heard on our local TV news that there has been a large find recently in London on the site of a new hotel. No other details were provided but they did show some finds like pottery, coins and what appeared to be a carving knife.
Has anyone any further info to share?
Much appreciated folks.
Apologies if this is posted in the wrong area.
Cheers,
Pict
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Quote:From the BBC article:
Quote:Archaeologists excavating the listed Syon Park site made the discovery of more than 11,000 Roman items...The artefacts found included two shale armlets, fragments of a lava quernstone and a late Bronze Age (1000-700 BC) gold bracelet.
So what was the late Bronze Age item doing with Roman-era ones? Or perhaps it was found in a deeper, older layer?
The excavations at Syon Park (which started in 2004 after Time Team did a survey their in 2003), have revealed evidence of habitation on the site from the late Bronze Age onwards (one of the earliest finds was of a late Bronze Age metalwork hoard). I think the bracelet came up when they were excavating the lowest contexts of the burial ditch areas, so migt have been disturbed when the original burial cut was made.
Or maybe some Iron Age Britain found it whilst digging and kept it.
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Progress in Britain: In the Bronze Age, bracelets were made of gold. A thousand years later, they're made of shale. What are they made of now?
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