Deverel–Rimbury culture

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The Deverel–Rimbury culture was a name given to an archaeological culture of the British Middle Bronze Age in southern England.[1] It is named after two barrow sites in Dorset and dates to between c. 1600 BC and 1100 BC.

It is characterised by the incorrectly-named Celtic fields, palisaded cattle enclosures, small roundhouses and cremation burials either in urnfield cemeteries or under low, round barrows. Cremations from this period were also inserted into pre-existing barrows. The people were arable and livestock farmers.

Deverel–Rimbury pottery is characterised by distinctive globular vessels with tooled decoration and thick-walled, so-called "bucket urns" with cordoned, usually finger-printed decoration.[2][3][4][5][6] In the southern counties of the UK, fabric is usually coarsely flint-tempered.[2] In East Anglia and further northeast grog-tempering is typical.[6]

The term Deverel-Rimbury is now mostly used to refer to the pottery types as archaeologists today believe that Deverel–Rimbury does not represent a single homogeneous cultural group but numerous disparate groups who shared a varying range of cultural traits.

References

  1. ^ "Deverel–Rimbury Culture". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford University Press. January 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3.
  2. ^ a b Seager Thomas, Mike (2008). "Sussex Prehistoric Pottery. Collared Urn to Post Deverel-Rimbury, c. 2000–500BC". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 149: 29–37. doi:10.5284/1085533 – via Archaeology Data Service.
  3. ^ Seager Thomas, Mike (2016). A Bronze Age Cemetery Assemblage by Southampton Water. Artefact Services Technical Reports 27. Lewes: Artefact Services.
  4. ^ Seager Thomas, Mike (2010). Middle Bronze Age Drayton — a Deverel-Rimbury Cemetery Assemblage. Artefact Services Technical Reports 21. Lewes: Artefact Services.
  5. ^ Seager Thomas, Mike (2003). A Significant Find of Kent Middle Bronze Age Pottery: the Deverel-Rimbury Assemblage from East Hall Farm, Sittingbourne. Artefact Services Technical Reports 10. Lewes: Artefact Services.
  6. ^ a b Brown, Nigel (1999). The Archaeology of Ardleigh, Essex: Excavations 1955-1980. East Anglian Archaeology Report 90 (PDF). Chelmsford: Essex County Council.


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