The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Part VII: The Iron Age, Roman and Early Saxon Settlement

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With contributions from Justine Bayley, Julie Bond, David Buckley, Hilary Cool, John Davies, Brenda Dickinson, Stuart and Vera Friedenson, Tony Gregory, David Gurney, Kay Hartley, Catherine Hills, Donald Mackreth, Peter Murphy, Kenneth Penn and Jennifer Price. Illustrations by John Davies, David Gurney, Kenneth Penn and Robert Rickett, and photographs by Derek Edwards, David Morgan, Robert Rickett, Peter Wade-Martins, David Wicks and Jean Williamson. Excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery also revealed extensive occupation evidence: late Iron Age and Roman enclosures and field boundaries, an early Roman kiln, and a small settlement of 'sunken huts' and post-hole buildings possibly contemporary with the cemetery. Full reports on the structural data, artefacts (including Iron Age and Romano-British pottery) and environmental evidence illustrate the different phases of activity. The lengthy settlement sequence, covering two 'periods of transition' — Iron Age/Roman and Roman/ Anglo-Saxon — lends the results importance, and the report makes a useful contribution to the study of rural settlement and economy in East Anglia. For earlier prehistoric occupation (7th to 2nd millennia BC) see EAA 39, 'Spong Hill Part VI'.

Author(s): Robert Rickett
Series: East Anglian Archaeology, 73
Publisher: Field Archaeology Division, Norfolk Museums Service
Year: 1995

Language: English
Pages: 320
City: Dereham

List of Contents v
List of Plates vi
List of Figures vi
List of Tables viii
Contents of Microfiche viii
Contributors x
Acknowledgements xi
Summary xii
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
Chapter 2. The Excavation 5
Chapter 3. The Artefacts 67
Chapter 4. Environmental Evidence 140
Chapter 5. Discussion and Conclusions 147
Bibliography 159
Index 164

Microfiche (133 pp.)