Based on Fieldwalking carried out by Alan Davison and George Fermer aided, in Hales and Loddon, by other members of the Hales Hall Archaeological Trust 1980-86. With Documentary Research by Alayne Fenner.
A sequence of settlement patterns from prehistoric to late medieval and early post-medieval times has been established through fieldwalking in three parishes: Loddon, Hales and Heckingham. The documentary evidence has also been reviewed. In all periods, settlement favoured the areas of lighter soils though much of the landscape of all three parishes appears to have been exploited. Fluctuations and changes in the density and distribution of settlement over the centuries are described and analysed.
Author(s): Alan Davison
Series: East Anglian Archaeology, 49
Publisher: The Norfolk Archaeological Unit
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 102
City: Dereham
List of Contents v
List of Plates vi
List of Figures vi
List of Tables vi
Acknowledgements vii
I. Summary 1
II. Introduction 1
Ill. South-east Norfolk 1
IV. Topography and Soils of the Parishes of Hales, Heckingham and Loddon Fenner 7
V. Fieldwalking Methods Adopted in the Survey of the Parishes of Hales and Loddon 7
VI. Fieldwalking in the Parish of Heckingham 10
VII. The Definition of a Site 11
VIII. The Mapping of Sites 12
IX. The Distribution of Finds by Periods 12
X. Studies of Selected Sites 22
XI. A Documentary Study of Hales and Loddon, by Alayne Fenner 41
XII. The Evidence Compared, by Alan Davison 61
XIII. The Settlement Patterns: Some Questions 64
XIV. Some Major Features of the Settlement Sequence: An Analysis of Possible Causes, by Alan Davison 66
XV. Conclusions, by Alan Davison 69
Tabulated Gazetteer of Finds 77
Bibliography 89
Index 91
