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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 undert...
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 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 selecte...
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 re...
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.
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.
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 sam...
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 set...
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/...
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 th...
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 si...
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.
Approximat...
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 ...
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 was...