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Category: Agriculture

Long Meg and her Daughters standing stone and stone circle

Filed under Agriculture, Archaeology, Medieval, Neolithic, ploughing, Stone Circle

Long Meg and her Daughters is a remarkable Neolithic monument located near Penrith in Cumbria, England.

Bubeneč Neolithic Farm, Prague

Filed under Agriculture, Early Neolithic, Field Systems, Neolithic, New Sites, ploughing, Research

Quite recently, initial excavation evidence from Bubenec, close to Prague was first announced to the public, pending full publication. As part of that media activity, the head archaeologist for the dig, Petra  Maříková  Vlčková explained that the excavation; below the future Canadian Embassy, in Prague’s Bubeneč district, cut through almost two metres of undisturbed deposits – a rarity in Central Europe.

Wellhill, Dunning Early Neolithic Farm – Perthshire

Filed under Agriculture, Early Neolithic, Field Systems, Mesolithic, Neolithic, New Sites, Norman, Pottery, Scotland

The village of Dunning in Perthshire, Scotland, has been revealed through excavation as having traces of human activity dating back 10,000 years. This included evidence of what could be the earliest farming activity recorded in Scotland so far, and also remains of hunter-gathering activity dating back to the Mesolithic period.

Ard, Dunning.Early Neolithic Farm, Earliest.Rare, Farm, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Perthshire, Pits, ploughing, Ploughmarks, scotland, Wellhill
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Jun 15

Guide: Piles of Stones (OS Maps)

Filed under Agriculture, Barrow, Burial Mound, Landscape Archaeology, Landscape feature, Ring Cairn, Spoil Heap, Visible Remains

On every late-Victorian and early-20th-century OS sheet the surveyors marked any conspicuous heap of stones they could not instantly classify as a tumulus, beacon, trig-point or boundary stone with the catch-all term “Pile of Stones.”

Brough Law, Breamish Valley, Northumberland – Bronze Age Terracing

Filed under Agriculture, Bronze Age, Earthworks, Field Systems, Iron Age

Summary and supplemental information in relation to the publication: Early‐Middle Bronze-Age Agricultural Terraces in North-East England: Morphology, Dating & Cultural Implications.