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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shepperton Henge Alternative Name: Staines Road Farm
Country: England County: Surrey Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Staines  Nearest Village: Shepperton
Map Ref: TQ07686832
Latitude: 51.403697N  Longitude: 0.453353W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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JohnLindsay visited I think these boxes rather difficult to tick, as what can be seen depends on the imagination. Phil Jones book, or pamphlet, is in Staines Library (well it isn't, its on my floor, but it will be when I return it.) I'm ttrying the 458 from Kingston to Staines which seems to pass nearby, you can see a lot more from a bus. Then I'll try walking with the OS Explorer. From the book it is rather difficult to work out where it is, but I think I have the broad idea. There is a review of the book in the Surrey Arch. for I think about 2009. Surrey Archaeology incidently greps in google to their site, and the back run of the Collections has been digitised. It is catalogued in BIAB so if you know some sort of string, something is findable. At the moment I'm working on the Carshalton one.

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Shepperton Henge
Shepperton Henge submitted by Andy B : Yes, it's a cuddly henge! Part of the brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey until the end of May 2005. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Henge in Surrey. Traces of a small circular ditched enclosure were found at Staines Road Farm, Shepperton in 1989.

Spepperton Henge was built around 3500BC and measures about 22 metres across. It is thought to be sacred because the entrance faces the midsummer sunrise and two people were buried in the ditch.

A dog's skull, six red deer antlers, pottery and some red ochre (used for painting) were buried there. The henge could be seen for miles away because the bank and ditch were white with chalk. Just outside the henge were a water hole, boiling pit and hearth for preparing feasts, whilst an avenue of pits or wooden posts ran past the henge to the River Ash. The site was found during gravel digging just north of Shepperton.

The site was used over many generations, probably the scene of gatherings celebrated with food, music and dance. Its ditches were periodically re-excavated and rededicated with offerings that included human and animal remains, flint tools and pottery vessels.

The site lingered long in the memories of the people who lived in the area. Almost a thousand years later it provided a focus for cooking and feasting, which was centred round a small hearth and a boiling pit served by a waterhole.

Source, including a photo of the excavated site and lots of flint discoveries at the
Musum of London - Carving out a home exhibition.

Radiocarbon dates from http://hercules.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~orau/dl_am29.html

Staines Road Farm, NGR TQ 07686832, England
OxA-4057 SRFS/RC, 1/G1 E/F,bone, cattle humerus d13C=-21.0 4670±85
OxA-4058 SRFS 89, 2/G9 E/F,bone, cattle metacarpad13C=-21.0 4740±85
OxA-4059 SRFS 89, 3/G15 D1,bone, cattle metatarsad13C=-21.0 4595±85
OxA-4060 SRFS 89, 4/G13 D2/3,bone, cattle tibia d13C=-21.0 4860±85
OxA-4061 SRFS 89, 6/G10,bone, human d13C=-21.0 4645±85

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There is nothing to show for this site on the ground now. With thanks to the Museum of London, SPARCS (the Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) and Spelthorne Museum.
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Shepperton Henge
Shepperton Henge submitted by Andy B : Introduction to the brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey. There until the end of May 2005. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shepperton Henge
Shepperton Henge submitted by Andy B : The brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey until the end of May 2005. This display board is tucked in the corner of the coffee shop, where I enjoyed a sandwich. Pictured with one of the friendly clientele of the Community Centre who were most intrigued as to what I was up to! (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Curator's Choice: The reconstructed head of a Neolithic woman at the Museum of London by Andy B on Monday, 31 October 2011
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Jon Cotton interviewed by Chris Broughton on 25 July 2011

Curator’s Choice: In his own Words. Jon Cotton, Senior Curator (Prehistory) in the Early London History and Collections department of the Museum of London, chooses the reconstructed head of a prehistoric alien. (Jon Cotton has as far as we know been made redundant in the current cuts - MegP Ed)

"She was found in Shepperton, on the Western fringes of London, dug into the gravel in the remains of an ancient sacred site. Give or take, she’s around 5,500-years-old – Neolithic. We’ve got earlier bodies and human remains, but nothing quite as complete.

That’s down to sheer dumb luck, I think. The soil preservation was good enough for the bones to survive, which was a huge factor in the way we’ve chosen to display her.

It was only when the pathology came in that we saw exactly how we were going to do it - it was an absolute no-brainer. ‘Shepperton Woman’ is the oldest Londoner whose face we could realistically reconstruct.

Caroline Wilkinson - the dental pathologist we got in - does a lot of work for the police on murder and burns victims. Seven or eight out of 10 people recognise their relatives from her reconstructions, so it’s theoretically quite possible that someone who knew this woman would recognise her from the model.

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/archaeology/art360727
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Specialist recreates face of woman from 5,000 years ago by Andy B on Monday, 31 October 2011
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Story from October 10, 2002

A Manchester doctor has used a mixture of scientific and artistic skills to re-create the face of a 5,000-year-old woman. Known as the Shepperton Woman, the face has been carefully reconstructed by Dr Caroline Wilkinson from the bones of the skull outwards.

The fragmented skull was uncovered during an archaeological dig at Staines Road Farm, in Shepperton, Surrey, in 1989 and has been dubbed London's first lady. However, it's now believed from tests on lead levels in the skull's teeth that the Shepperton Woman is likely to have come from Derbyshire.

The pieces of the skull were brought to Manchester University last year where they were put together. A plaster cast was then made of the re-built skull and clay was applied to this to build up the shape of the face. From next week, the clay model is one of the star attractions at the Museum of London.

More: Manchester Online
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A Neolithic Ring Ditch and later prehistoric features at Staines Road Farm by Andy B on Friday, 09 July 2010
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A Neolithic Ring Ditch and later prehistoric features at Staines Road Farm, Shepperton

By Phil Jones

A Neolithic ring ditch on a lower Thames terrace west of London was fully excavated in 1989. It had a short causeway gap to the north-east and was segmented through its northern and western lengths. Soon after being dug, in the middle of the 4th millennium BC, it was filled or lined with white clay. If filled, the clay might then have been dug out, while respecting the shape of the original ditch. A subsequent crouched burial in the ditch terminal by the causeway was of similar date, and other placements along the ditch base include antler picks, the remains of a dog/wolf and one or more large pieces of Peterborough ware. These and the remains of the white clay were buried by a soil fill containing large quantities of struck flint, animal bone, and plain and decorated pottery sherds suggestive of a domestic site. Similar radiocarbon dates were obtained for this sealing fill except for one bone belonging to the first half of the 4th millenium BC.

A Neolithic occupation deposit adjacent to the ring ditch was covered by a burnt mound layer dated to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, which also filled and sealed a probable boiling pit and its hearth, as well as another pit. A nearby large pit was dug around the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and a cluster of probable tree-throw hollows contained pottery belonging to the first half of the 1st millennium BC.

Between the above and the River Ash was a pit row avenue sealed by an alluvial clay, which might have been contemporary with the henge, and further west perhaps the same river clay had buried two later prehistoric field ditches.

This volume is a full report on the work, and includes detailed reports on all classes of finds, including worked flint, pottery, animal and human bone, as well as studies of macroscopic plant and invertebrate remains, palynology, and radiocarbon dates.

A Neolithic ring ditch and later prehistoric features at Staines Road Farm, Shepperton
by Phil Jones
SpoilHeap Monograph no 1
ISBN 978-0-9558846-0-3
94pp, 52 illus, 32 tables
Price £10 + £2.50 p&p
To order this volume download the order form on the SpoilHeap Publications main page
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Re: Shepperton Henge by Anonymous on Wednesday, 18 June 2008
I live next door to staines road farm and think that it is bad that there is nothing left to go and see. the history is invaluable to our children and to have had a mini stonehenge on our door step would have been amazing. Who decides to dig up our history? They could have preseved it or is gravel more important to the council or gov.

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Re: Shepperton Henge by Andy B on Friday, 25 February 2005
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