Earlier prehistoric pottery production and ceramic petrology in Britain / Раннее доисторическое гончарное производство и петрология керамики в Великобритании

A remarkable prehistoric site has recently been excavated tn Yorkshire, known as Paddock Hill, Thwtng or simply Thwtng (National Grid Reference TA 030706). It consists of a later neoltthtc-earlter Bronze Age henge monument that was converted into a hillfort tn the later Bronze Age ( 1200 be). The longevity of occupation, over a millennium, gtves rise to a continuous sequence of ceramics from Grooved Ware and Beaker pottery to post DeverelRimbury ceramics. 
In southern England there ts a twenty-five year tradition of analysing ceramics from archaeological excavations, out Yorkshire ts not so fortunate. The complexities of glacial drift have, to a large extent, precluded the use of thin section petrology, and this project was conceived as an attempt to investigate the feasibility of ustng petrological anafysis to provenance prehistoric pottery in a complex geological area. <...>