Later Bronze Age Activity in the Somerset Levels
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Antiquaries Journal
- Vol. 52 (2) , 269-275
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500021065
Abstract
Summary The evidence of human activity in the Somerset Levels in the first millennium B.C. consists of wooden trackways laid across areas of developing raised bog, and joining small settlements on the higher, drier lands of the Poldens and the Wedmore ridge. The excavation of one of these tracks, of the sixth century B.C., is described. Stray finds of weapons and tools continue to be made by peat-cutters and by archaeologists; the most recent of these finds are a hazelwood peg or truncheon, and a sycamore tent peg, of the fourth or third century B.C. The relationship of the trackways and other finds to the marshside villages at Meare remains to be established.Keywords
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