Our Changing Coast: A Survey of the Intertidal Archaeology of Langstone Harbour, HampshireCouncil for British Archaeology, 2000 - 287 pages The Langstone Harbour Archaeological Survey Project was founded to undertake a detailed investigation of a large, shallow marine inlet on the southern coast of England. This volume outlines the results of work carried out between 1993 and 1998 when a broad range of inter-disciplinary investigative techniques were employed: fieldwalking, GPS survey, auger survey, limited excavations, underwater geophysical survey and excavation. A history of the physical development of the harbour as well as the populations that lived in the vicinity and exploited its resources, is given, from the earliest evidence in the Mesolithic and Neolithic, to the Bronze Age Urnfield cemetery, salt production in the Roman period, through to more recent changes and ecological and environmental threats to the survival of this area. |
Contents
Results of the Langstone Harbour Archaeological Survey by Michael J Allen | 43 |
The site investigations by Michael J Allen and Julie Gardiner | 88 |
Timber identifications from the structure by Rowena Gale | 120 |
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Age pottery Alluvium Description archaeological artefact scatters auger Baker's Island Baker's Rithe blades bone Bradley and Hooper briquetage burial burnt flint cal BC Chichester Chichester Harbour clay cliff coast coastal collection cores cremated debitage deposits ditch environment eroding erosion evidence excavation Farlington Marshes fieldwork flakes flint assemblage flintwork fragments Gardiner Geology Hampshire Fld Club Hayling Island hearth intertidal zone Iron Age Island Land class Langstone Harbour Langstone Survey Project late Bronze Age LOCATION Long Island marine material Mesolithic mudflats Neolithic North Binness Island Oyster Island palaeoenvironmental peat pollen Portsea Portsea Island Portsmouth prehistoric present radiocarbon dating recorded recovered Roman Romano-British Russell's Lake saltmarsh sample Scaife scrapers sea-level sediment sherds shingle shore shoreline Sinah Sinah circle SMR NUMBER Solent South Binness Southampton species structure submerged surface Survey Project Number tidal timbers tion underwater vessel walkover survey Wessex Archaeology