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The Deverel–Rimbury culture was a name given to an archaeological culture of the British Middle Bronze Age in southern England.^[1] It is named after two barrow sites in Dorset and dates to between c. 1400 BC and 1200 BC.^[2]

Site characteristics

The period is characterised by the erroneously named Celtic fields, palisaded cattle enclosures, small roundhouses and cremation burials either in urnfield cemeteries or under low, round barrows. Cremations from this period were also inserted into pre-existing barrows. The people were arable and livestock farmers.

Pottery

Deverel–Rimbury pottery is characterised by distinctive globular vessels with tooled decoration and thick-walled, so-called "bucket urns" with cordoned, usually finger-printed decoration.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] In the southern counties of the UK, fabric^{[clarification needed]} is usually coarsely flint-tempered.^[3] In East Anglia and further northeast grog-tempering is typical.^[7]

Terminology

The term "Deverel-Rimbury" is now mostly used to refer to the pottery types, as archaeologists today believe that Deverel–Rimbury does not represent a single homogeneous cultural group but numerous disparate groups who shared a varying range of cultural traits.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ "Deverel–Rimbury Culture". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford University Press. January 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3.
↑ Darvill, Timothy (1 January 2009), "Deverel–Rimbury Culture", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3, retrieved 18 May 2025
1 2 Seager Thomas, Mike (2008). "Sussex Prehistoric Pottery. Collared Urn to Post Deverel-Rimbury, c. 2000–500BC". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 149: 29–37. doi:10.5284/1085533 – via Archaeology Data Service.
↑ Seager Thomas, Mike (2016). A Bronze Age Cemetery Assemblage by Southampton Water. Artefact Services Technical Reports 27. Lewes: Artefact Services.
↑ Seager Thomas, Mike (2010). Middle Bronze Age Drayton — a Deverel-Rimbury Cemetery Assemblage. Artefact Services Technical Reports 21. Lewes: Artefact Services.
↑ Seager Thomas, Mike (2003). A Significant Find of Kent Middle Bronze Age Pottery: the Deverel-Rimbury Assemblage from East Hall Farm, Sittingbourne. Artefact Services Technical Reports 10. Lewes: Artefact Services.
1 2 Brown, Nigel (1999). The Archaeology of Ardleigh, Essex: Excavations 1955-1980. East Anglian Archaeology Report 90 (PDF). Chelmsford: Essex County Council.

External links

Deverel-Rimbury ware at the Museum of London

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[1] "Deverel–Rimbury Culture". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford University Press. January 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3.

[2] Darvill, Timothy (1 January 2009), "Deverel–Rimbury Culture", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3, retrieved 18 May 2025

[:0-3] 1 2 Seager Thomas, Mike (2008). "Sussex Prehistoric Pottery. Collared Urn to Post Deverel-Rimbury, c. 2000–500BC". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 149: 29–37. doi:10.5284/1085533 – via Archaeology Data Service.

[4] Seager Thomas, Mike (2016). A Bronze Age Cemetery Assemblage by Southampton Water. Artefact Services Technical Reports 27. Lewes: Artefact Services.

[5] Seager Thomas, Mike (2010). Middle Bronze Age Drayton — a Deverel-Rimbury Cemetery Assemblage. Artefact Services Technical Reports 21. Lewes: Artefact Services.

[6] Seager Thomas, Mike (2003). A Significant Find of Kent Middle Bronze Age Pottery: the Deverel-Rimbury Assemblage from East Hall Farm, Sittingbourne. Artefact Services Technical Reports 10. Lewes: Artefact Services.

[:1-7] 1 2 Brown, Nigel (1999). The Archaeology of Ardleigh, Essex: Excavations 1955-1980. East Anglian Archaeology Report 90 (PDF). Chelmsford: Essex County Council.

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