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The Excavation of A Red Hill at Peldon, Essex, With Notes on Some Other Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Kay de Brisay
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Summary

This description of the structure and function of the salt-making site at Peldon, together with comparable evidence from other sites, demonstrates a degree of specialization within Iron Age society with interesting consequences for any view of social structure. The possibility of trade in salt, over and above production for local needs, must also affect our view of the extent to which economic factors could over-ride the basically tribal organization of Britain at this time.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 31 - 60
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1978

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10 The expert assistance rendered by Mr. Clark was invaluable. No funds were available and, without his help, such scientific research would not have been possible.

11 Similar hearth floors have been found in the Upchurch marshes, Kent. Information kindly supplied by Mr. Alec Miles.

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16 K. W . de Brisay, ibid, xvii (1975), 32.

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18 Field-walking by the author, 1976.

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21 Information kindly supplied by Mrs. B. Perren 1975.

22 Information kindly supplied by Mr. Brian Simmons at the ‘Salt Weekend’, 1974.

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