Preserved in the Peat

Andy M. Jones is Projects Manager at Cornwall Archaeological Unit. His research interests include the Neolithic and Bronze Age of western Britain. Major publications include: Preserved in the Peat: An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context (2016) and Later Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: Evidence from Five Excavations (2021).

Section 1: Background_x000D_
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Chapter 1: Introduction_x000D_
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Andy M Jones_x000D_
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Section 2: Deconstructing and reconstructing the cist_x000D_
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Chapter 2: Results from the 2011 fieldwork_x000D_
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Chapter 3: The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts _x000D_
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Helen Williams_x000D_
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Chapter 4: The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cist_x000D_
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Richard Brunning_x000D_
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Chapter 5: The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse Hill_x000D_
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M.G. Canti_x000D_
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Section 3: Assembling the burial_x000D_
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Chapter 6: The human remains _x000D_
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Simon Mays_x000D_
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Chapter 7: The wood charcoal _x000D_
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Zoë Hazell_x000D_
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Chapter 8: The charred textiles from the cremation deposit_x000D_
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Susanna Harris_x000D_
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Chapter 9: The matted plant material from the base of the cist_x000D_
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Julie Jones_x000D_
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Chapter 10: The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samples_x000D_
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Ralph Fyfe and Marta Perez_x000D_
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Section 4: Items with the young adult_x000D_
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Chapter 11: The animal pelt_x000D_
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Esther Cameron and Quita Mould_x000D_
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Chapter 12: The copper-alloy pin_x000D_
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Alison Sheridan, Esther Cameron and Henrietta Quinnell _x000D_
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Chapter 13: The basketry container_x000D_
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Caroline Cartwright, Maggie Cooper, Sherry Doyal, Dinah Eastop, Linda Lemieux and Ruth Stungo _x000D_
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Chapter 14: The composite braided hair armband or bracelet_x000D_
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Alison Sheridan, Esther Cameron, Caroline Cartwright, Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Susanna Harris, Linda Hurcombe, Jamie Inglis, Quita Mould, Caroline Solazzo and Helen Williams_x000D_
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Chapter 15: The composite necklace_x000D_
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Alison Sheridan, with contributions by Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Jamie Inglis, Henrietta Quinnell, Hal Redvers-Jones, Roger Taylor, Kate Verkooijen, Helen Williams and Lore Troalen_x000D_
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Chapter 16: The wooden studs_x000D_
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Alison Sheridan, Richard Brunning, Vanessa Straker, Gill Campbell, Caroline Cartwright, Stuart King and Henrietta Quinnell_x000D_
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Chapter 17: The flint _x000D_
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Anna Lawson-Jones_x000D_
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Chapter 18: The textile and animal-skin object_x000D_
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Esther Cameron, Susanna Harris and Quita Mould_x000D_
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Section 5: The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape context_x000D_
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Chapter 19: The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist_x000D_
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Ralph M. Fyfe, Jeffrey J. Blackford, Mark Hardiman, Zoë Hazell, Alison MacLeod, Marta Perez and Sarah Littlewood_x000D_
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Section 6: The radiocarbon dating_x000D_
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Chapter 20: Interpreting the chronology of the cist _x000D_
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Peter Marshall, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nicola Russell, Fiona Brock and Paula Reimer_x000D_
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Section 7: Discussion, interpretation and conclusions _x000D_
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Chapter 21: The results from the project_x000D_
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Andy M Jones_x000D_
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Appendices_x000D_
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Appendix A: Chemical analysis of beads from the Whitehorse Hill cist_x000D_
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Joanna Dunster_x000D_
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Appendix B: Report on the scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination of the basketry container and other organic artefacts from Whitehorse Hill cist_x000D_
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Caroline Cartwright_x000D_
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Appendix C: Report on the proteomic analysis of hairs from the basketry container, the braided band and the pelt from the Whitehorse Hill cist_x000D_
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Caroline Solazzo