Multi-period

Britain

British Archaeological Bibliography 1994, 3, 1-2

Wetlands Projects

Coles, Bryony, 1994 Wetland management: a survey for English Heritage, WARP Occas Pap, 9
This survey, commissioned by English Heritage, includes sections on the organisations involved in wetland management, threats to wetlands, protective legislation and designations, research, the water industry, and field techniques. Wider implications are discussed and there is an assessment of the relevance of wetland management to archaeology, with recommendations for future action.

Berkshire

Boismier, W A, 1995 An analysis of worked flint artefact concentrations from Maidenhead Thicket, Maidenhead, in I. Barnes, W.A. Boismier, R.M.J. Cleal, A.P. Fitzpatrick and M.R. Roberts, Early settlement in Berkshire, 52-64, Wessex Archaeological Report No 6 (Salisbury)
Three concentrations of later Neolithic/earlier Bronze Age flint artefacts were recognised in an evaluation along the route of A423(M). Assemblage characteristics for the southern and central clusters indicated the remains of quarry or extraction sites, whereas the northern site appeared to represent occupation. Spatial analysis was performed and related to the wider regional context; the results demonstrate that more attention to evaluation material can markedly increase the yield of information.

Gloucestershire

Allen, Tim, Darvill, Timothy, Green, Sarah, and Jones, Margaret, 1993 Excavations at Roughground Farm, Lechlade, Gloucestershire: a prehistoric and Roman landscape, Thames Valley Landscapes: The Cotswold Water Park, 1, (Oxford Univ Comm Archaeol for Oxford Archaeol Unit)
Investigations of an eight ha area revealed evidence of occupation from the late Neolithic to the end of the Roman period; this was one of the first landscape studies undertaken (1957--65) in this country. There were Grooved Ware pits, later Bronze Age pits, early Iron Age landscape divisions, and an early Roman native farmstead, succeeded in the second century by a villa. Further buildings were added in the second, third, and fourth centuries; apart from Saxon stone-robbing there was no further activity until gravel extraction began in the 1930s.

Darvill, Timothy, and Gerrard, Christopher, with Linda Viner and Neil Holbrook, 1994 Cirencester: town and landscape. An urban archaeological assessment, Cotswold Archaeol Trust
Covers the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods in the Cirencester area through to the post-medieval market town. The report is based on a reappraisal of the nature and structure of archaeological records appropriate to urban areas and the formation of a `Cotswold system' of recording and assessment.

Lincolnshire

Lane, T W, 1995 The archaeology and developing landscape of Ropsley and Humby, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage Reports Series 2
The survey (primarily fieldwork) was conducted in 1979 as a Manpower Services-funded project. The survey area straddles limestone heathland (with evidence of occupation from the Mesolithic onwards), and boulder clays (wooded for much of the time but revealing later Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary activity). Some documentary evidence of woodland management is correlated to botanical and archaeological evidence.

Norfolk

Leah, M D, and Flitcroft, M, 1993 Archaeological surveys at Park Farm, Snettisham and Courtyard Farm, Ringstead, Norfolk Archaeol, 41, 462-81
Describes the results of field surveys on two farms, both on chalk but one bordering on the greensand. This one, Park Farm, contained evidence of Iron Age to medieval settlement, whereas Courtyard Farm had no clusters of finds but was cultivated throughout its history as breaks in marginal heathland.

Shropshire

Ellis, Peter et al, 1994 Excavations in the Wroxeter hinterland 1988-90: the archaeology of the A5/A49 Shrewsbury bypass, Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc, 69, 1-119
Exploration of cropmark sites revealed two prehistoric enclosures, one Iron Age and the other undated; a Romano-British roadside settlement, field system, and enclosure; a Roman marching camp and roads; and a possible prehistoric origin for the modern field layout. The Romano-British pottery is contrasted with the urban assemblages, and reasons for the underdevelopment of Wroxeter's hinterland are examined.

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