2013/01/01 by Steve Roskams, Cath Neal, Jane Richardson +1 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Archaeology and Rock Art Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
paper · doi:10.11141/ia.34.5
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The supply of fresh water is a central requirement for human settlement. This article discusses evidence associated with the construction, use and demise of a late-Roman well recently excavated at Heslington East near York, UK. It seeks to suggest that, by a holistic analysis of all archaeological evidence, we can distinguish the ideological from the functional dynamics that made up the site formation processes within this feature. The assemblages that evidence these activities might be considered mundane in some respects but their integrated assessment, along with a detailed examination of depositional and formation processes in the feature, produces compelling evidence for what has been termed 'structured deposition'.