An Early Neolithic Grave and Occupation, and an Early Bronze Age Hearth on the Thames Foreshore at Yabsley Street, Blackwall, London

摘要

Excavation on on the Thames floodplain in London revealed traces of Early Neolithic occupation and burial on id gravel bar beneath alluvium, A large expanse of peat also buried by alluvium was recorded between ds and the modern river Thames suggesting that the occupation was situated on or close to the 2. A single grave cut into the natural sand contained a poorly preserved crouched inhumation, possibly tan.. The burial was accompanied by a fragment of carinated bowl, a flint knife, and other struck flints. carbon date from an oak retaining plank within the grave of 5252+28 BP (4220-3970 cal ?C: 57) makes this burial one of the earliest from the British Isles and the earliest known for London A f struck flint and pottery predominantly of Early Neolithic date was recovered from adjacent areas of , A nearby hearth contained fragments of Early Bronze Age pottery pointing to later prehistoric activity.