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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Supplementary maps

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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Radiocarbon dating

A programme of radiocarbon dating was employed at Stansted to establish an absolute chronology with which to study the archaeological remains excavated. A phased strategy was devised and undertaken during post-excavation analysis, targeting features and deposits that seemed most significant from the results of finds, environmental and stratigraphic analysis.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Insect remains

Excavation on the MTCP site (BAAMP00) discovered a Middle Bronze Age ring ditch which surrounded the much eroded remains of a round barrow. The ditch contained waterlogged organic sediment above the primary silting. There are examples known of round barrows in the Fenlands of East Anglia which were engulfed in peat as a result of a rising water table long after their abandonment. However, it ...
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Charcoal

The excavations at Stansted produced over 400 samples of charcoal, mostly from the LTCP, MTCP and M11 sites. About 220 were considered suitable for analysis and, from these, 67 samples were selected for full analysis, representing 42 contexts.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Charred plants

Excavations were carried out at Stansted Airport by Framework Archaeology during 2000 to 2001 in advance of the expansion of car parking facilities. An intensive program of soil sampling for the recovery of environmental remains was undertaken under the direction of Dana Challinor (OA Environmental Coordinator). Deposits dating from the Neolithic to post-medieval periods were sampled, including...
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Marine shell

The marine shell assemblage consisted of 1,339 shells, representing 798 minimum numbers of individuals. These were retrieved from 209 deposits over four phases and from four of the sites at Stansted.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Animal bones

A total of 31,889 animal bone fragments, or number of individual specimens (NISP), were recovered from phased contexts from four sites dating from the Bronze Age to the post-medieval period.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Palynological analysis

An intensive programme of sampling was undertaken during excavation to retrieve monolith samples for palynological analysis. Deposits dating from the middle Bronze Age to the post medieval were sampled from a number of different feature types including the ditch of a round barrow, waterholes, pits and boundary ditches.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Soil micromorphology

Excavation of the LTCP and MTCP sites at Stansted Airport found multi-period occupation that included Middle Bronze Age to post-medieval archaeology.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Environmental overview

Although development associated with Stansted Airport over the past two decades has led to the recovery of a large amount of environmental information concerning Middle Bronze Age and later settlement in the area, very little is known of the first forests that developed on the clay plateau following the last glacial period. The lack of suitable pollen-bearing deposits in the area means t...
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Inhumed bone

Human bone from twelve contexts (seven from the MTCP site (BAAMP00), four from the LTCP site (BAACP00) and one from the M11 site (BAALR00)) was analysed, including the remains of one Late Iron Age/early Romano-British and four late Romano-British in situ burials. Other contexts comprised bone redeposited in the fills of various pits and ditches including one Middle Bronze Age, two Late Iron Age...
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Cremated bone

Cremated human bone from 137 contexts was received for analysis, including 117 contexts from the MTCP site to the east of the present airport (BAAMP99 four contexts, BAAMP00 113) and 20 from the LTCP site on the west side of the airport (BAACP99 three contexts, BAACP00 17).
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: The worked wood

Waterlogged wood was recovered from two sites with Bronze Age dates - the ring ditch of barrow 324078 at the MTCP site (various primary and secondary deposits) and a waterhole or well on the M11 site.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Worked stone

A total of 85 stone objects was recovered from all phases of activity at Stansted; a summary of these is provided in Table 25.1 and selected artefacts are illustrated in Figure 25.1. Approximately two thirds of the worked stone (68%) was used for corn grinding, starting with saddle querns, and progressing to rotary querns, millstones and mortars. There are also eight hammerstones, seven whe...
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Flint

An assemblage of 12,235 struck flints and 9,805 pieces (90.835 kg) of burnt unworked flint was recovered during several phases of archaeological investigation at Stansted Airport between the years of 1999 and 2003 (Tables 24.1-24.2). The material represents, in varying quantities, a long period of human activity from the lower Palaeolithic to the later Bronze Age. A summary of the struck ...
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Glass

Glass was recovered from three sites at Stansted Airport: the LTCP, MTCP, and FLB sites. The majority of the assemblage comprises fragments of vessel glass, although window glass, objects and waste material are also represented in small quantities. The date range of the assemblage is Romano-British to post-medieval.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Clay pipes

This report deals with the clay tobacco pipes recovered by Framework Archaeology during excavations on three sites at Stansted Airport in Essex.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Fired clay

The fired clay assemblage from Stansted totalled 9,012 fragments, weighing 41,482 g. The material was recovered from seven sites.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Ceramic Building Material

A total of 1,255 fragments of ceramic building material, weighing 155,408 g was recovered during evaluations and excavations at Stansted Airport.
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Excavations at Stansted Airport: Medieval and post-medieval pottery

A total of 5193 sherds (58,024 g) of post-Roman pottery was recovered from three sites at Stansted airport, from all stages of fieldwork undertaken between 1999 and 2001.
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