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Worlebury storage pits. Worlebury Camp storage pits are 93 storage pits found at the Iron Age hill fort that stood north of the town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The pits were cut into bedrock for "keeps", one is a ditch for protection [5]), and 74 are outside the "keep" but still enclosed within the exterior walls. [6]
The refuse pits were thought to have first been storage pits that were converted into refuse pits once their contents began to sour. They contained animal bone, charcoal and artifacts. The roasting pits appear to correspond to what has ethnographically been described as “macoupin roasting pits” by the early French explorers Deliette and ...
The Moccasin Bluff site (also designated 20BE8) is an archaeological site located along the Red Bud Trail and the St. Joseph River north of Buchanan, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] and has been classified as a multi-component prehistoric site with the major component dating to the Late Woodland/Upper Mississippian period.
Prehistoric storage pits; S. Agriculture in prehistoric Scotland This page was last edited on 13 September 2016, at 20:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Mesozoic trees (10 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric trees" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Catholme ceremonial complex, Neolithic henge enclosure, timber circle and pit alignments; Castle Dykes Henge, Neolithic Class I henge. Drove Cottage Henge, Heavily damaged Neolithic henge; Durrington Walls, Neolithic Class II henge. King Arthur's Round Table, Neolithic Class II henge. Maumbury Rings, Neolithic henge later used as a Roman ...
Small tar pit. La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the bones of trapped animals have ...
Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England.It lies 8 km (5.0 mi) north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England.It was worked between c. 2600 and c. 2300 BCE, although production may have continued through the Bronze and Iron Ages and later, owing to the low cost of flint compared with metals.