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- Title
A MIDDLE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT IN THE LEA VALLEY AT NAVIGATION PARK, PONDERS END, ENFIELD.
- Authors
Simmonds, Andrew; Lawrence, Steve; Boardman, Sheila; Brown, Lisa; Donnelly, Michael; Poole, Cynthia; Shaffrey, Ruth; Stafford, Elizabeth; Strid, Lena
- Abstract
A programme of trial trenching and excavation undertaken by Oxford Archaeology at Navigation Park, Ponders End, Enfield, uncovered a Middle Bronze Age settlement of unusual form, situated between two parallel boundary ditches and enclosed on at least three sides by a fence. Evidence was found for a single probable roundhouse as well as a smaller post-built structure and numerous pits, some of which contained small quantities of domestic refuse. Ceramic evidence and radiocarbon dating indicate that the settlement was occupied between c.1440 and c.840 cal bc. Sondages dug during the evaluation identified one or more palaeochannels at the western edge of the floodplain, infilled by a sequence of peat and alluvium, and a radiocarbon date of 2200--1950 cal bc was obtained for a piece of alder root from a channel-edge deposit.
- Subjects
EXCAVATION; BRONZE Age; RADIOCARBON dating
- Publication
Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, 2018, Vol 69, p1
- ISSN
0076-0501
- Publication type
Article