Fiskerton: An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age and Roman Votive Offerings

Rok: 2002
ISBN: 9781842170649
OKCZID: 110149147

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
FIELD, Naomi. Fiskerton: an Iron Age timber causeway with Iron Age and Roman votive offerings: the 1981 Excavations. Oxford: Oxbow Books, c2003. xv, 226 s.

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Fiskerton, located in the Witham valley at Lincoln, is one of only a handful of excavated sites in Europe to reveal the Iron Age practice of ritually destroying special and elite objects by placing them in a body of water. This volume reports on the 1981 excavations on the bank of the River Witham and provides fascinating insights into this important aspect of Iron Age religion and culture. The excavators found three rows of timber posts at the site, two of which formed a wooden causeway at least 160m long which remained in use from 457 to at least 321 BC. A remarkable group of Iron Age and Roman artefacts were found in association with this structure, including bronze and iron weapons and tools (some decorated with ornamental motifs), bone tools, stone tools, jewelry and pottery. The Iron Age finds are earlier than those from similar watery sites such as La T?ne in Switzerland and Llyn Cerrig Bach in Wales, and the precise dating of the Fiskerton causeway by dendrochronology establishes it as the earliest known structure in Europe belonging to the La T?ne culture. This report provides detailed descriptions of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval artefacts and the human and animal bones found at the site. The authors compare the Fiskerton deposition with other British, Irish and European examples of ritual or votive deposition in water; they discuss the construction and the appearance of the causeway; and they examine the significance of Fiskerton as a religious site, especially in terms of its topographical context, as a river crossing and as a boundary or liminal area between mainland Britain and the former island of Lindsey to the north.

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