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Early Neolithic Trackways in the Thames Floodplain at Belmarsh, London Borough of Greenwich
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Excavations in 2008 on the site of a proposed new prison at Belmarsh West, London Borough of Greenwich, found the heavily decayed remains of two superimposed Early Neolithic trackways. These structures, which are radiocarbon dated to the first quarter of the 4th millennium cal BC comprise some of the earliest structures yet encountered in the London Basin. The trackways were found towards the base of a peat sequence, immediately above the underlying Devensian gravels. The associated palaeoenvironmental record suggests that they were constructed in response to rising base levels, within a local floodplain environment dominated by alder carr, in order to maintain mobility across an expanding wetland landscape. The archaeological and geomorphological background to the excavations and a description of the results of the excavations are presented, with a particular emphasis on the Neolithic structures. The significance and wider context of the structures are examined through a consideration of their construction, wider palaeoenvironmental context, and the ways in which the structures can shed light on the nature of Early Neolithic subsistence strategies and land-use within the Thames floodplain.
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“The only known trackways on the southern margins of the floodplain, those at Belmarsh West (Hart et al. 2015), appear to be constructed at a time when marginal and supratidal wetlands began to expand around a small area of higher ground in present day Thamesmead;”
From Modelling Prehistoric Topography and Vegetation in the Lower Thames Valley, UK: Palaeoenvironmental Context for Wetland Archaeology and Evidence for Neolithic Landnám from North Woolwich (2023) · cites this paper as Hart et al. 2015
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“The possible trackway at Fort Street (Crockett, Allen, and Scaife 2002) has previously been thought to be unusual in that it is located away from the present edge of the floodplain (Hart et al. 2015, 216), however this model indicates that this site would have been at the edge of the floodplain at the time of construction during the Neolithic.”
From Modelling Prehistoric Topography and Vegetation in the Lower Thames Valley, UK: Palaeoenvironmental Context for Wetland Archaeology and Evidence for Neolithic Landnám from North Woolwich (2023) · cites this paper as Hart et al. 2015
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Stastney, P., Scaife, R., Carretero, L. G., Whittaker, J. E., Cameron, N., & Allison, E. (2023) · Environmental Archaeology · doi:10.1080/14614103.2021.1880683 · Cited by 3
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- Hart, D., by, W. C., Allott, L., Bamforth, M., Bates, M., Jones, S., Marshall, P., Walker, M., & Weisskopf, A.
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- Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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- 2015-03-20
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- 81
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- 215-237
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- 0079-497X
- 2050-2729
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