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Author Chapman, Henry

Title Living with the Flood : Mesolithic to post-medieval archaeological remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire - a wetland/dryland interface
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Summary; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Background to the project; 1.2 Location, geology and preservation potential; 1.3 Archaeological and historical background; 1.4 Research context and aims; 1.5 Structure of this book; Chapter 2: Methodologies; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Mapping aims onto methods; 2.3 Methods; Chapter 3 : The excavations; 3.1 Introduction: phasing and chronology; 3.2 Survival and preservation; 3.3 Site narrative; 3.4 Summary; Chapter 4: Prehistoric lithics (by Barry John Bishop)
4.1 Introduction4.2 Late glacial flintworking; 4.3 Mesolithic and early Neolithic flintworking; 4.4 Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age flintworking; 4.5 Discussion; Chapter 5: Prehistoric pottery (by Ann Woodward); 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Ceramic traditions -- typologies, succession and contextualisation; 5.3 Discussion; Chapter 6: Roman period finds; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Roman ceramic building material (by Sue Anderson); 6.3 The Roman coin (by Roger White); 6.4 The Roman pottery (by R. Perrin); Chapter 7: Early Anglo-Saxon finds; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Early Saxon pottery (by Sue Anderson)
7.3 Ceramic building material (by Sue Anderson)7.4 Bone and antler artefacts (by Penelope Walton Rogers and D. James Rackham); 7.5 The Anglo-Saxon animal bone (by Matilda Holmes); 7.6 The glass beads (by Cecily Cropper); 7.7 The buckle loop (by Penelope Walton Rogers); Chapter 8: Late Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval finds; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Late Anglo-Saxon and medieval pottery (by Sue Anderson); 8.3 Medieval ceramic building material (by Sue Anderson); 8.4 Animal burials (by Matilda Holmes)
Chapter 9: Palaeoenvironmental analyses (by B. Gearey, E-J. Hopla, K. Krawiec, E. Reilly and R. McKenna, with a contribution by V. Fryer)9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Results; 9.3 Discussion; 9.4 Conclusions; 9.5 Charred plant remains and molluscs (by V. Fryer); Chapter 10: Prehistoric and Roman activity; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The first settlers: a sedentary population or seasonal use of a preferred place? Mesolithic to Bronze Age activity; 10.3 Abandonment? Iron Age and Roman evidence; 10.4 Conclusions; Chapter 11: Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval activit; 11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Roman/Anglo-Saxon transition11.3 Reclaiming the floodplain -- an Anglo-Saxon settlement; 11.4 Medieval and post-medieval ditch systems; 11.5 Conclusions; Chapter 12: Conclusions: life on the wetland edge; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Narrative; 12.3 Reconsidering the aims of the project, and recommendations for future research; 12.4 Final remarks; Appendix 1: Catalogue of the struck lithic material detailed by individual context; Appendix 2: Palaeoenvironmental and radiocarbon tables; Appendix 3: Animal bone tables; Appendix 4: Roman pottery tables
Notes Appendix 5: Radiocarbon dating and analysis from the Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured buildings
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Sawston
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) -- England -- Sawston
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Sawston (England) -- Antiquities
Subject England -- Sawston
Form Electronic book
Author Colls, Kevin
Paul, Samantha
ISBN 9781782979678
1782979670