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Emerging settlement monumentality in North Wales during the Late Bronze and Iron Age: the case of Meillionydd

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Description

In this paper, I outline the development of the 1st millennium BC settlement at Meillionydd near Rhiw on the Llŷn peninsula in northwest Wales, which evolved from an unenclosed cluster of roundhouses into a double ringwork enclosure embanked by two concentric drystone-faced earthen banks before being slighted and nearly completely flattened in what appears to be a rather labour intensive ‘closure’ rite. I then try to interpret the meaning associated with this process of enclosure and abandonment, and what it might tell us about the beginnings of a process of social evolution that turned the mostly egalitarian, kinship-based societies of the beginning of the 1st millennium BC into the highly hierarchised, aristocratic societies of the Welsh Middle Ages.
Period12 Apr 2014
Event titleAtlantic Europe and the Metal Ages conference
Event typeConference
LocationCardiff, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Archaeology
  • Late Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
  • Wales
  • Meillionydd

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