Excavations at Redhouse, Adwick Le Street, Doncaster: Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman occupation

REVIEW BY PATRICK DANIEL This book summarises 17 years of work by MOLA Northampton/Northamptonshire Archaeology at a 70ha development by the Roman road north of Doncaster. The earliest remains comprised a ring ditch with early Bronze Age cremation burials, an important addition to the small but growing number of prehistoric funerary monuments excavated in the county. The bulk of the remains are more familiar, and relate to Iron Age and Romano-British enclosure and farming. The Roman road was fairly well-preserved, with sealed plough-scars and a ditch providing further evidence that cultivation hereabouts was not a result of Roman ‘colonisation’. This well-illustrated book is con