Woodworking
Material retrieved from the palaeochannel at Stainton West provides evidence for how wood was worked with stone tools, which can differ from the methods associated with the use of metal…
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4 May 2020
Tridents and Paddle Haft
Two wooden tridents or forks and what may have been the haft of a paddle (the blade was missing), were placed along the northern edge of the stream that would have flowed there at…
4 May 2020
Sieves
In order to recover the lithic material from the extensive and populous scatter, that was found at the Stainton West site, an innovative approach had to be adapted. The challenge…
4 May 2020
Pollen
During the course of the CNDR excavations samples were routinely taken for pollen where deposits were judged to have good potential for its survival. The analysis of this pollen will…
4 May 2020
Polissoir
A large stone with a slightly dished upper surface was recovered from a pit cut in at a Neolithic level within the palaeochannel, possibly post-dating the main phase of use…
4 May 2020
Palaeochannel
The river terrace at Stainton West was sculpted by the glacial outwash channels that laid down the sandy gravel deposits that underlie the site, at the end of the last Ice Age…
4 May 2020
Monuments
On a river terrace of the north bank of the Eden are series of cropmarks detected by aerial photographic survey. Many of the cropmarks are annular or penannular in shape…
4 May 2020
Microliths
Much of the lithic assemblage (stone tools) at Stainton West is representative of a classic Late Mesolithic narrow-blade microlithic assemblage, with a strong emphasis on blade technology, in core-reduction techniques, knapping products…
4 May 2020
Lithics
Approximately 314 000 individual lithics were excavated from the Stainton West site, including retouched/utilised pieces (tools) and debitage, (waste flakes). Two thirds of this assembladge was made up of small…
4 May 2020
Lithic Raw Material
The study of the lithic (man modified stone) assemblage has highlighted the wide range of sources of raw material which were knapped and used at the site, indicating that the occupants had…
4 May 2020