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Title FAXTON excavations in a deserted northamptonshire village 1966-68
Published [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE, 2020

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Series The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Summaries -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Purpose and past -- 1.1: Threats and responses -- 1.2: The excavation and its director -- 1.3: On site at Faxton -- 1.4: The post-excavation programme -- 1.5: The value of Faxton -- Chapter 2: Place and landscape -- 2.1: Geographical background -- 2.2: Historical background -- 2.3: The open fields and their enclosure -- 2.4: Other associated settlements -- 2.5: The landscape context
Chapter 3: Field survey, standing buildings and the church at Faxton -- 3.1: The overall plan of the village -- 3.2: The west side of The Green -- 3.3: The north side of The Green -- 3.4: The east side of The Green -- 3.5: The south side of The Green, including the church -- Chapter 4: Excavations in the south-east of the village in 1966 (Croft 29) -- 4.1: Recording system on site -- 4.2: Excavations in Croft 29 -- 4.3: The road section -- 4.4: The finds -- Chapter 5: Excavations at the north-west of the village in 1967 (Crofts 6-9) -- 5.1: Excavations in Crofts 6-9 -- 5.2: The excavated sequence
5.3: The houses -- 5.4: The finds -- Chapter 6: Excavations south of the village green in 1968 (Croft 52-53) -- 6.1: Excavations in Croft 52-53 -- 6.2: The excavated sequence -- 6.3: The medieval finds -- 6.4: Post-medieval occupation -- 6.5: Post-medieval finds -- 6.6: Summary -- Chapter 7: The pottery -- 7.1: Roman pottery -- 7.2: The early Anglo-Saxon pottery -- 7.3: The later medieval pottery -- 7.4: Pottery distributions -- 7.5: Conclusions -- 7.6: The Faxton medieval pottery revisited -- 7.7: The post-medieval pottery -- Chapter 8: Artefacts -- 8.1: Prehistoric finds -- 8.2: Roman finds
8.3: Medieval and later finds -- 8.4: The Faxton finds revisited -- Chapter 9: Building materials -- 9.1: Sculpture or carved ornament -- 9.2: Worked stone -- 9.3: Daub -- 9.4: Glass and window came -- 9.5: Nails -- 9.6: Floor tiles -- 9.7: Roof tiles -- 9.8: Roofing lead -- Chapter 10: Environmental evidence and metallurgical residues -- 10.1: Shell -- 10.2: Charcoal -- 10.3: Charred grain and seeds -- 10.4: Soil samples -- 10.5: Industrial residues -- 10.6: Faunal remains -- 10.7: The animal bone from the 1966 excavations -- Chapter 11: The buildings and their plots
11.1: The short-lived peasant house -- 11.2: The peasant buildings at Faxton -- 11.3: The building plans at Faxton re-interpreted -- 11.4: The layout of Faxton plots -- Chapter 12: Faxton then and now -- 12.1: Origins -- 12.2: The medieval village plan -- 12.3: The buildings -- 12.4: The layout and use of the crofts -- 12.5: The long process of desertion -- 12.6: Faxton now -- Appendices: -- Appendix 1: Church repairs in the 18th and 19th centuries -- Appendix 2: Monuments in the church -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Northamptonshire
Extinct cities -- England -- Northamptonshire
Archaeology, Medieval -- England -- Northamptonshire
Lost architecture -- England -- Northamptonshire
Archaeology, Medieval
Excavations (Archaeology)
Extinct cities
Lost architecture
SUBJECT Northamptonshire (England) -- Antiquities
Faxton (England) -- History
Subject England -- Northamptonshire
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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