The Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in Jersey

This volume, part of Jersey’s Archaeological Research Framework, assesses the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in relation to the Channel Islands and NW France. It outlines current knowledge and sets research goals to guide heritage protection and future archaeological studies.

This volume is the first in a series of archaeological resource assessments commissioned by Jersey Heritage as part of an Archaeological Research Framework for the island. It is a comprehensive study of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Jersey in the context of the other Channel Islands and their relationship with north-west France. The first part of the book describes our current state of knowledge and in the second part research objectives and questions are presented. These are designed to guide those responsible for the care and protection of artefacts, archaeological deposits and monuments. Researchers will benefit from the resource assessment as it provides an academic framework for future investigations in Jersey.

Preface Introduction History of research Summary of chronological frameworks in Jersey The sea, maritime travel and connectivity Resource assessment

Chalcolithic and Bronze Age material culture Ceramic assemblages and typo-chronologies Metalwork Funerary evidence and ritual monuments Occupation evidence Food, farming and fields

Research agenda and strategy A Foundation studies B Secondary studies

Acknowledgements Bibliography Appendix 1: Beauport artefact correlations Appendix 2: Tanquerel Fields
suggested phasing of main ceramic context-groups

Appendix 3: Jerbourg re-phasing of rampart sequence

Note on context numbering Re-phasing principles The revised phasing The relationship of published pottery to the revised phasing Synthesis of ceramic change

Appendix 4: Chalcolithic and Bronze Age material in funerary-type contexts in Jersey Appendix 5: Ville-es-Nouaux pottery correlation

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Preface
Introduction
History of research
Summary of chronological frameworks in Jersey
The sea, maritime travel and connectivity
Resource assessment

Chalcolithic and Bronze Age material culture
Ceramic assemblages and typo-chronologies
Metalwork
Funerary evidence and ritual monuments
Occupation evidence
Food, farming and fields

Research agenda and strategy
A Foundation studies
B Secondary studies

Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Beauport artefact correlations
Appendix 2: Tanquerel Fields; suggested phasing of main ceramic context-groups

Appendix 3: Jerbourg re-phasing of rampart sequence

Note on context numbering
Re-phasing principles
The revised phasing
The relationship of published pottery to the revised phasing
Synthesis of ceramic change

Appendix 4: Chalcolithic and Bronze Age material in funerary-type contexts in Jersey

Appendix 5: Ville-ès-Nouaux pottery correlation

Stuart Needham specialised in metalwork in his early career and has since diversified to cover many aspects of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of north-west Europe, involving themes such as deposition practices, metal circulation systems, periodisation, life- and refuse-cycles of material culture, exchange systems, maritime interactions, and alluvial archaeology. Further publications have emanated from excavations at Runnymede Bridge and Ringlemere. A curator at the British Museum for thirty years before becoming an independent researcher, he co-founded the Bronze Age Forum in 1999 and delivered the Rhind lectures for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2011. He was recently Research Director of the People of the Heath project investigating Early Bronze Age barrows in the Rother Valley of East Hampshire and West Sussex. Catriona Gibson has worked extensively in both commercial and academic archaeology. Her research interests include exploring evidence for connectivity and mobility during later prehistory, the Beaker/EBA periods in western Europe, and forging stronger bridges between developer-led and academic archaeology. She is one of the authors of Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain. Peter Chowne is a Senior Honorary Fellow of the Department of Archaeology, University of York. He has been advising Jersey Heritage on the development of a research framework for archaeology and assisted with the creation of their Historic Environment Record. He was a Senior Lecturer in Heritage Management at the University of Greenwich, Head of the Museum of London Archaeology Service and Assistant Director at the Trust for Wessex Archaeology. His primary research interests are Bronze Age ceramics and the prehistory of Lincolnshire.

• By (author) Stuart Needham
• By (author) Catriona Gibson
• By (author) Peter Chowne

'... this book, like the one on the Neolithic, first briefly lays out the current evidence of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods in Jersey, and then in the second section homes in on where the gaps in knowledge are most evident. The authors do not merely identify the problems, however, but provide a comprehensive framework as to how these deficiencies may be addressed, giving archaeologists a clear idea of where to focus future research.' – Kathryn Krakowka (2026): Current Archaeology 434

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