Plateau Rift
Excavation
A. Roberts, 1991-92.
Curation
British Museum.
Burials
MNI: 2 adults
Finds
Charcoal, flint scraper, horse and sheep bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Late Iron Age | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
2200 bp (OxA-5818); 2480 bp (OxA-4497) on human bone.
External References
| National Monuments Record | SX 86 NW 70 |
Bibliography
Ambers, J. & Bowman, S. (2003) Radiocarbon measurements from the British Museum: Datelist XXVI. Archaeometry 45: 531-540.
Main, P. et al. (1995) Using a three-dimensional digitiser and CAD software to record and reconstruct a Bronze Age fissure burial. In Wilcock, J. & Lockyear, K. (eds) Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. 1993. B.A.R. International Series 598, pp. 133-141.
Roberts, A. (1993) Excavations in the Torbryan Valley, Devon. Unpublished MS, Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities, British Museum, London.
Article Author Graham Mullan