Imperial College Sports Grounds and RMC Land, Harlington : the development of prehistoric and later communities in the Colne Valley and on the Heathrow terraces / by Andrew B. Powell, Alistair J. Barclay, Lorraine Mepham and Chris J. Stevens ; with contributions by Phil Andrews [and fourteen others] ; illustrations by Rob Goller and S.E. James.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Foreign language summaries; Chapter 1: Introduction; Background to the project; ICSG; RMC Land; Land East of Wall Garden Farm; Site location, topography and geology; Methods; Excavation Areas and context numbering; Field methods; Topographic analysis; Archaeological background; Pre-Neolithic; Neolithic to Early Bronze Age; Middle-Late Bronze Age and Iron Age; Romano-British to medieval; Post-medieval and modern; Project research themes; Radiocarbon dating.

Location of archivesChapter 2: Hunters, Herders and First Farmers; Introduction; Environment and landscape; Economy; Pre-Neolithic; Early Neolithic; Feature G2004; Tree-throw holes; Early to Middle Neolithic; Introduction; Monuments; Pits; Late Neolithic; Beaker and Early Bronze Age; Mortuary activity; Feature G288; Chapter 3: Settling the Land: From Monuments to Fields -- Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age; Introduction; Environment and landscape; Later prehistoric field system; Date; Orientation; Fields -- form and structure; Trackways; Possible enclosure ditch.

Middle Bronze Age settlementICSG; RMC Land; Middle Bronze Age burials; Cremation cemetery; Other Middle Bronze Age burials; Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age settlement; ICSG; RMC Land; Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age burials; Economy; Discussion; Chapter 4: Open Settlment and Trackside Enclosures: Iron Age and Romano-British; Introduction; Environment and landscape; Middle and Late Iron Age; ICSG; RMC Land; Romano-British; ICSG; RMC Land; Economy; Discussion; Change in the Iron Age; Continuity into the Romano-British period; Chapter 5: Farmsteads and Fields: The Saxon to Medieval Evidence.

IntroductionThe historical background; Early Saxon; Middle Saxon; Late Saxon and early medieval; The chronological evidence; Pottery; Other finds; Radiocarbon dating; Field system at RMC Land; Enclosure 1 (1202); Truncation by east-west ditches (1205-7); Second east-west ditch (1214); Recut of enclosure 1 (1211/4043); Enclosure 2 (1203/1212/1710); Southern droveway ditches; Northern droveway ditches; Enclosure 3; Fields 1-3; Eastern section: enclosure 4 and fields 4 and 5; Fields 6-9; Field system at ICSG; Structures; Possible sunken-featured buildings (SFBs); Post-built structures.

FencelinesPits; Pits at RMC Land; Pits and postholes at ICSG; Waterholes; Waterholes at RMC Land; Waterholes at ICSG; Funerary activity at RMC Land; Grave 4662; Grave 4707; Grave 4720; Possible graves 4713 and 4717; Other possible graves at RMC Land; Other features; Late medieval and post-medieval development; Discussion; Early Saxon settlement; Early Saxon funerary evidence; Middle Saxon to medieval activity; Finds deposition and site formation processes; Environment and economy; Chapter 6: Pottery and Fired Clay; Prehistoric pottery; Methods; Dating; Context; Pottery by chronological period.

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