Silbury Hill, Wiltshire: Mosses from the 2007 Excavations
Author(s): A R Hall
This report presents the detailed results of the analysis of the mosses recovered from samples taken as part of 2007/8 excavations undertaken as part of the Silbury Hill Conservation Project. It provides the supporting data for the discussion of the environmental evidence discussed in the excavation monograph (Campbell et al 2013). Mosses were present in deposits close to the centre of the Hill and within the earliest phases of construction, though samples from the Old Land Surface contained very few and these were poorly preserved and therefore not analysed in detail. The mosses were identified from contexts containing different mixtures of turves and top soil that formed the material from which a series of organic mounds were constructed, as well as material used to back fill two pits and from an organic layer within layers dumped on top of the organic mounds. The taxa identified are broadly similar to those recovered from the 1968-9 intervention and are generally typical of chalk grassland.
- Report Number:
- 49/2012
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Archaeobotany Environmental Studies Landscape Park Neolithic Plant Remains
