Report On Excavations in the Pen Pits, Near Penselwood, Somerset
- Downloads
- Under 100
- Pages
- 63
About this book
Report On Excavations in the Pen Pits, Near Penselwood, Somerset is an 1884 archaeological report by Lieutenant-General Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), the British army officer and archaeologist who founded modern field archaeology and the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. Pitt Rivers led careful excavations on his Cranborne Chase estate and on neighbouring sites and developed the recording standards, typology, and stratigraphic discipline that became the basis of professional twentieth-century archaeology. This report covers the Pen Pits, a group of curious shaft-and-chamber features near Penselwood on the Somerset and Wiltshire border that were variously interpreted at the time as Roman millstone quarries or as British dwellings. Pitt Rivers's account argues for a quarrying origin and is illustrated with the careful drawings and finds tables for which his work became famous.
About the author
More from this genre
See all- H The History of SaltThe History of Salt
- L The Lenape StoneThe Lenape Stone
- N Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus)Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus)
- D Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3
- V The Vitamine ManualThe Vitamine Manual
- L Lessons in Chalk ModelingLessons in Chalk Modeling
Books like this one
-
Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites
-
Manus, Sacrum, and Caudals of Sauropoda
- R Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee
- C Cheap Postage Cheap Postage
- C Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills
- M Man and the Glacial Period Man and the Glacial Period
Discussion
No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.
Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy
Read or download
Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.
- EPUB 6.2 MB
-
KINDLE Send to Kindle Send
- Download the EPUB file to this device.
- Open Amazon's Send to Kindle page, sign in, and add the file. Open Send to Kindle (opens in a new tab)
On a phone: open the downloaded EPUB and share it to the Kindle app.
You can also email the file to your Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com) from an email address you approved in your Amazon account.
- PDF 1.4 MB
- MOBI 2.8 MB
Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone
Book facts
- Author
- Augustus Pitt Rivers
- Pages
- 63
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online