With a contribution from Andrew Rogerson. Illustrations by Margaret Mathews, and photographs by Derek A. Edwards.
This is the first of two volumes describing the results of the Fenland Survey in Norfolk. The introduction describes the geography and geology of the area, historical background, the modern landscape and the sources used for the survey.
Parish essays present the results of fieldwork in the 15 parishes of Marshland and the 7 parishes of the Nar Valley. Each essay traces the evolution of the landscape, accompanied by parish maps for each period.
The concluding discussion looks at the development of settlement, related to environmental changes, within each of the areas as a whole. Particularly notable has been the contribution of much new evidence towards a reconstruction of the origins and development of the medieval landscape of Marshland.
Author(s): Robert J. Silvester
Series: East Anglian Archaeology, 45
Publisher: The Norfolk Archaeological Unit
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 326
City: Dereham
List of Contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
Contents of Microfiche
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
A Note on the Use of Radiocarbon Dates
Summary
1. Introduction
I. The Fens and the Fenland Project
II. The Geography of Marshland and the Nar Valley
III. The Historical Background
IV. Flandrian Deposits
History of the study
The sedimentary sequence
V. The Modern Landscape
Marshland
The Nar Valley
VI. Sources
VII. The Field Survey and its Methods
VIII. The Organisation of the Volume
The Parish Essays: Marshland
2. Clenchwarton
3. King's Lynn
4. Marshland St. James
5. Terrington St. Clement
6. Terrington St. John
7. Tilney All Saints
8. Tilney St. Lawrence
9. Walpole St. Andrew
10. Walpole St. Peter
11. Walsoken
12. West Walton
13. Wiggenhall St. Germans
14. Wiggenhall S.t Mary Magdalen
15. Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin
The Parish Essays: The Nar Valley
16. Marham
17. Middleton (Blackborough End)
18. Pentney
19. Shouldham
20. Tottenhill
21. Watlington
22. West Winch
23. Wormegay
24. Discussion
I. Marshland
The Roman period
The Saxon Period
The medieval period
11. The Nar Valley
Appendix 1: The medieval pottery, by Andrew Rogerson
Appendix 2: Early maps of Marshland and the Nar Valley
Bibliography
Index
Microfiche (123 pp.)
