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A Neolithic Site at Abingdon, Berks. (Second Report)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. Thurlow Leeds
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At the close of the description of the site itself in the first report i t was stated that the rise in the level of the trench east of the pit containing Hearth 4 suggested the presence of a causeway beyond. It is now more than doubtful whether the evidence is capable of such interpretation. Just beyond the top of the slope where all signs of the usual cultural layer had disappeared, a fine specimen of a comb and some sherds were found, but after that nothing but occasional flakes of flint and a very few sparse sherds.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1928 , pp. 461 - 477
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1928

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page 461 note 1 Antiquaries Journal, vii, 440.

page 462 note 1 It is, however, possible, judging from the length of the complete section, that there was a true causeway between N. I and s. I.

page 467 note 1 Remains of another hut-hole have since been detected some hundred yards from the road, not far from the point of the promontory formed by the junction of the two brooks.

page 470 note 1 A parallel to these combs, additional to those cited in the last report, comes from Bower, Maiden, Dunstable, (V. C. H., Beds., i, 169, fig. 60).Google Scholar Mr. Alexander Keiller, F.S.A., has kindly drawn my attention to exactly similar implements used by Eskimos for removing loose hairs from skins in the process of dressing them (Annual Report Smithsonian Inst. ix, 301, fig. 301).

page 474 note 1 Fragments of a bowl from Auchnacree, Argyll, exhibit identical fluting on the rim and neck.

page 475 note 1 Mortimer, , Forty Years, pl. II, fig. 14.Google Scholar

page 475 note 2 Reports Oxfordshire Arch. Soc., 1912, pl. opp. p. 116, nos. 1–3.Google Scholar