III. Other communal settlements
(cf. Ordnance Survey’s
‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ settlements —1978, 8);
IV. Temples and shrines;
V. Villas;
VI. Other substantial buildings (including isolated
bath-houses and ‘farm outbuildings’);
VII. Rural occupation sites (including ditches, pits,
isolated timber buildings, and surface scatters);
VIII. Cemeteries, comprising ten or more burials in toto;
IX. Cemeteries of less than ten burials, and individual
interments;
X. Industrial sites (including iron extracting
and
smelting sites and salt extracting sites);
XI. Potteries;
XII. Tileries.
Chance finds of non-ceramic material have been omitted, it will be noted,
as this system is designed specifically to enable the contexts of ceramic
finds to be summarised. On the site distribution maps (Figs. 2—9) all
sites of Classes Ito V and X to XII have been plotted, according to
whether they have been the subject of personal examination by the present
author, examination of publications only, or have not been examined in
either form. Sites of Classes VI to IX are only plotted if the present
author has looked at the material in publication, or at first hand.
Temples and shrines associated with sites of Classes I and II are not
plotted, as it is assumed that they functioned as an adjunct of these
sites
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rather than as sites in their own right or as a predominant feature of the
site. The temple complex at Springhead, and the ‘shrine’ at Brenley
Corner have been plotted as the former may well have dominated the life of
the settlement while the latter appears to have outlived the settlement
itself (Jenkins 1973; 1974).
Table 1. Key to symbols used on Figs. 2-9.
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