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faunal analysis
[Ge].
[Ge].
Fauresmith
[CP].
[CP].
A stoneworking industry found in south and east Africa related to the late
ACHEULIAN
, characterized by small pointed and neatly made handaxes, and named after a site in the Orange Free State. At Saldanha, Cape Province, Fauresmith artefacts were contemporary with fossil remains of
Homo neanderthalis
.
ACHEULIAN
, characterized by small pointed and neatly made handaxes, and named after a site in the Orange Free State. At Saldanha, Cape Province, Fauresmith artefacts were contemporary with fossil remains of
Homo neanderthalis
.
Faussett , Bryan
(1720–76)
[Bi].
(1720–76)
[Bi].
British antiquary well known for excavations into Anglo-Saxon burial grounds between 1757 and 1773, mainly in Kent. His work was published in 1856 under the title
Inventorium sepulchrale
. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Faussett was a cleric by profession and had livings in Shropshire and Kent.
[Bio.:
Dictionary of National Biography
, 6, 1114]
Inventorium sepulchrale
. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Faussett was a cleric by profession and had livings in Shropshire and Kent.
[Bio.:
Dictionary of National Biography
, 6, 1114]
Fécamp rampart
[De].
[De].
A type of earthwork forming the defences of late Iron Age hillforts in northern France and southern Britain, named after Le Camp du Canada at Fécamp, Pays de Caux, and introduced into Britain in the 1st century
ad
. It comprises a large mound of earth and stone forming a formidable bank outside of which is a wide flat-bottomed ditch.
ad
. It comprises a large mound of earth and stone forming a formidable bank outside of which is a wide flat-bottomed ditch.
Feddersen Wierde, Germany
[Si].
[Si].
A
TERP
settlement on the North Sea coast of Germany, extensively excavated by W. Haarnagel between 1955 and 1963. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries
ad
, the site was found to be more or less circular in plan, internally organized in radial segments running off from a central open area. An industrial zone provided evidence for leatherworking and bone working; the remainder of the settlement comprised farmsteads. The buildings were all of timber: aisled houses with wattle walls that incorporated a byre at one end and living areas for a family at the other. There was some evidence for foreign trade, but the settlement seems to have been fairly self-supporting. The site was abandoned around 450 ad.
[Rep.: W. Haarnagel , 1979,
Die Grabungen Feddersen Wierde
. Wiessbachen: F. Steiner]
TERP
settlement on the North Sea coast of Germany, extensively excavated by W. Haarnagel between 1955 and 1963. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries
ad
, the site was found to be more or less circular in plan, internally organized in radial segments running off from a central open area. An industrial zone provided evidence for leatherworking and bone working; the remainder of the settlement comprised farmsteads. The buildings were all of timber: aisled houses with wattle walls that incorporated a byre at one end and living areas for a family at the other. There was some evidence for foreign trade, but the settlement seems to have been fairly self-supporting. The site was abandoned around 450 ad.
[Rep.: W. Haarnagel , 1979,
Die Grabungen Feddersen Wierde
. Wiessbachen: F. Steiner]
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