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The girl with the chariot medallion: a well-furnished, Late Iron Age Durotrigian burial from Langton Herring, Dorset.

Russell, M., Smith, M. J., Cheetham, P., Evans, D. and Manley, H., 2019. The girl with the chariot medallion: a well-furnished, Late Iron Age Durotrigian burial from Langton Herring, Dorset. Archaeological Journal, 176 (2), 196-230.

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DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2019.1573551

Abstract

A well-furnished, Late Iron Age Durotrigian burial was found in 2010 by a metal-detectorist at Langton Herring in Dorset. This report examines all aspects of the discovery, paying particular attention to the skeletal remains, a female aged 19–24, providing the most complete, osteobiographical study of an individual buried with a mirror assemblage from the European Iron Age. A combination of artefacts and radiocarbon dating gives a range for the burial of c. AD 25 – cal AD 53. The grave goods themselves are of exceptional interest, representing an accumulation of artefacts acquired from diverse sources, deposited at a time of major cultural and societal change in southern Britain. The results of a geophysical survey are also presented, together with a discussion of additional wellfurnished burials in the Durotrigian tribal tradition, which place the burial deposit within a wider social and landscape framework.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0066-5983
Uncontrolled Keywords:British Iron Age; Durotrigian; Mirror Burial
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:32087
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:25 Mar 2019 10:03
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:15

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