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moss M
moss Apr 19, 2009 09:26:04
Replying to Paranoidward

Paranoidward wrote:
Apologies for dragging up an old thread (especially for a first post!) but i've recently come across this:

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/search/4182314.Stone_Age_Basildon_unearthed_in_a_field/

Excited, but at the same time concerned that the site may be destroyed.....any ideas on how to try & prevent this from happening?

The fact that it has a rare cursus leading from the river might help. The Springfield Cursus just outside Chelmsford here....

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4252/springfield_barnes_cursus.html

is protected I'm sure. There is also mention of the Springfield one in the following article. Cursus's are rare, and to be found with neolithic houses must be important. Reconstruction is not a bad idea, I see they mention that in the article, the Springfield one probably had a timber circle as well.

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba69/feat1.shtml

G Gwass
Gwass Apr 19, 2009 10:39:34
Replying to moss

You've probably seen this but there's an episode of time team in Basildon where they are searching for a roman villa which it turns out was mostly destroyed by a railway running next to the site but they find a mortuary enclosure in a field next to a bend in the Thames and there was a previous excavation the other side where lots of neolithic activity was found, won't be anything to see at all but they found loads of flints and I suppose in places where theres been that much development and lack of care for the past all you can hope for is to be in the place which was sacred at the time and understand why it was there.... before a megabowl is built on it!

Here's the episode

http://www.guba.com/watch/2000795072?duration_step=0&fields=23&filter_tiny=0&pp=40&query=time%20team&sb=10&set=-1&sf=0&size_step=0&o=82&sample=1240133518:cab33df2c4788069a138453b4ce356b3b80d5719

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