Assessment of Three Iron Age Assemblages from Gloucester
Author(s): B M Levitan
Three sites from Gloucester, Coppice Corner housing development (9/83), Saintbridge balancing pond (3/86) and 'Roman Fields' Abbeymead (14/86), were assessed primarily for their Iron Age content. All the sites also have Roman material, but since this period has been more intensively studied, both from Gloucester and the region, only one site was assessed for the Roman bones (9/83). Apart from the relative paucity of Iron Age assemblages from the region, the other major factor is the status of early wheel-thrown pottery which is seen by some as late Iron Age and others as early Roman. It was hoped that an assessment of the putative Iron Age bones from these sites might shed light on this problem. Although the three assemblages are quite small, in fact the assessment did show both a remarkable similarity between all three Iron Age assemblages and a difference to the Roman assemblage, this pattern being in keeping with King's 1984 synthesis. On this basis it would appear that the wheel-thrown pottery can more confidently be ascribed to the late Iron Age.
- Report Number:
- 121/1989
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 5
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains