Excavations at King's Low and Queen's Low (Paperback)

Dick Spicer

ISBN 10: 1905739664 / ISBN 13: 9781905739660

Published by Archaeopress, Oxford, 2014

About this Item

Paperback. These two barrows in the parish of Tixall, north of Stafford, were excavated by the StokeonTrent Museum Archaeological Society between the years 1986 and 1994. They are approximately one kilometre apart with Kings Low still extant but Queens Low badly damaged by ploughing. The results are important because little excavation of round barrows has been carried out in this area of North Staffordshire and these add considerably to the local corpus of knowledge concerning Early Bronze Age burial practices and various categories of material culture including Collared Urns and a single faience bead at each site. Two barrows in the parish of Tixall, north of Stafford, were excavated between 1986-1994. The results are important because little excavation of round barrows has been carried out in this area of North Staffordshire and these add considerably to the local corpus of knowledge concerning Early Bronze Age burial practices. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Excavations at King's Low and Queen's Low (Paperback)
• Publisher: Archaeopress, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905739664
• ISBN 13: 9781905739660
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

These two barrows in the parish of Tixall, north of Stafford, were excavated by the Stoke‐on‐Trent Museum Archaeological Society between the years 1986 and 1994. They are approximately one kilometre apart with King’s Low still extant but Queen’s Low badly damaged by ploughing. The results are important because little excavation of round barrows has been carried out in this area of North Staffordshire and these add considerably to the local corpus of knowledge concerning Early Bronze Age burial practices and various categories of material culture including Collared Urns and a single faience bead at each site.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Introduction and background

2 The excavations

3 People and the environment

4 The material culture

5 King’s Low and Queen’s Low: a wider discussion

Appendices

Bibliography

About the Author

Gary Lock is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology especially Geographical Information Systems, their application and theoretical aspects (current interests are modelling visibility and movement).