Digital Archive from the Hambledon Hill Project, 1974-2008

The Hambledon Hill project archive results from a programme of excavation, accompanied by field survey in the surrounding area, and from subsequent analysis, the final stage of which culminated in the publication in 2008 of Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England. Excavation and Survey of a Neolithic Monument Complex and its Surrounding Landscape by Roger Mercer and Frances Healy. The programme of excavation was carried out from 1974 to 1982, and focused on a hilltop complex on the Dorset chalkland which includes two Neolithic long barrows, two Neolithic causewayed enclosures with related outworks, and an Iron Age hillfort. This collection consists primarily of images, database tables, spreadsheets, and text documents compiled in the course of post-excavation analysis, both of the stratigraphic record and of collections of artefacts, human remains, animal bone and environmental material. It also includes listings of the primary archive and miscellaneous documents. Hambledon Hill was the site of an exceptionally large and diverse complex of earlier Neolithic earthworks, including two causewayed enclosures, two long barrows and several outworks, some of them defensive. The abundant cultural material preserved in its ditches and pits provides information about numerous aspects of contemporary society, among them conflict, feasting, the treatment of the human corpse, exchange, stock management and cereal cultivation. The distinct depositional signatures of various parts of the complex reflect their diverse use. The scale and manner of individual episodes of construction hint at the levels of organisation and co-ordination obtaining in contemporary society.

汉布尔顿山项目档案源自一项田野发掘计划及其周边区域的田野调查，以及后续的研究分析；该项目的最终成果为罗杰·默瑟（Roger Mercer）与弗朗西斯·希利（Frances Healy）于2008年出版的专著《英格兰多塞特郡汉布尔顿山：新石器时代遗址群及其周边景观的发掘与调查》（Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England. Excavation and Survey of a Neolithic Monument Complex and its Surrounding Landscape）。本次发掘工作于1974年至1982年间开展，研究聚焦于多塞特郡白垩台地上的一处山顶遗址群，该遗址群包含2座新石器时代长条形冢墓（long barrows）、2座带附属外垣的新石器时代堤道围场（causewayed enclosures），以及1座铁器时代山堡（Iron Age hillfort）。本档案集主要包含发掘后分析阶段编制的影像资料、数据库表格、电子表格与文本文件，内容覆盖地层记录（stratigraphic record）、人工制品（artefacts）、人类遗骸（human remains）、动物骨骼（animal bone）及环境标本（environmental material）的相关研究。此外，本档案集还包含原始档案清单与各类杂项文档。汉布尔顿山曾是一处规模宏大、类型多样的早期新石器时代土方工程遗址群，包含2座堤道围场、2座长条形冢墓与数处附属工事，其中部分具备防御功能。遗址的沟堑与坑穴中保存有大量文化遗存，可为研究当时社会的诸多维度提供关键信息，涵盖冲突活动、宴饮仪式、人类遗体处理、物品交换、畜牧管理与谷物种植等领域。遗址群不同区域各具特色的堆积特征（depositional signatures），反映出其功能用途的多样性。各阶段营建工程的规模与方式，暗示出当时社会所具备的组织协调水平。