Chariots, Swords and Spears

Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds

Mark Stephens

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789255430
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the Volume will be examining Iron Age burials, which included chariots, sword and spears and will also include earlier Prehistoric and later Roman activity. The excavations have enabled further scientific evidence for migration and mobility in the Iron Age population and secure chronologies for artefacts. New evidence from osteological analysis gives support for Warrior Graves and burial rites. The Pocklington shield has been described as one of the most significant pieces of Iron Age art. The exceptional Finds including a dismantled chariot with horses and an upright chariot also with horses captured the worlds media and the public imagination. The excavations at Pocklington in 2017& 2018 were featured on BBC 4's Digging for Britain series and was voted Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year 2018. The Anglian elements will be included in an additional volume.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Summary
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and glossary
• 1. Introduction (Mark Stephens)
• 2. The landscape and archaeological background to the excavations at Burnby Lane and The Mile, Pocklington (Peter Halkon)
• 3. The early prehistoric landscape (Mark Stephens)
• 4. The Iron Age cemetery at Burnby Lane (Mark Stephens)
• 5. Other Iron Age features and the post-Iron Age landscape (Mark Stephens)
• 6. Iron Age barrows at The Mile (Mark Stephens)
• 7. The shield from The Mile chariot burial (Melanie Giles and Matthew Hitchcock)
• 8. An Iron Age weapon burial from Burnby Lane (Yvonne Inall)
• 9. Other Iron Age weaponry from Burnby Lane and The Mile (Mark Stephens)
• 10. The chariot fittings from Burnby Lane and The Mile (Mark Stephens)
• 11. Iron Age brooches and bracelets from Burnby Lane and The Mile (Sophia Adams)
• 12. Other Iron Age finds
• 13. Osteological analysis, Burnby Lane (Anwen Caffell and Malin Holst) and The Mile (Paola Ponce and Malin Holst)
• 14. The animal bone from Burnby Lane and The Mile (Jane Richardson)
• 15. Summary of carbonised plant macrofossils and charcoal from Iron Age contexts at Burnby Lane (Diane Alldritt)
• 16. Chronological framework: the radiometric and typological dating evidence from Burnby Lane and The Mile (Derek Hamilton and Sophia Adams)
• 17. Diet and mobility: stable isotope analysis of the Iron Age population at Burnby Lane and The Mile (Derek Hamiton, Thomas G.B. Fox, Sophia Adams, Michele Alexander, Kerry L. Sayle and Katherine Steinke)
• 18. The significance of circular barrows of the Arras Culture – warrior graves or just a local tradition? (Paula Ware)
• 19. Synthesis of the Iron Age landscape (Mark Stephens)
• 20. Conclusion (Mark Stephens)
• Bibliography