6.1 Multi-period Publications

Britain

British Archaeological Bibliography 1995, 5, 1-2

Blair, J and Pyrah, C (eds), with 21 contributors, 1996, Church Archaeology: Research Directions for the Future, CBA Res Rep, 104
A survey the development of research themes in church archaeology. Chapters cover the origin and development of Christianity in Britain.

Berkshire

Lobb, S J, and Rose, P G, with 4 contributors, 1996, Archaeological Survey of the Lower Kennet Valley, Berkshire, Wessex Archaeological Report, 9
Field surveys, carried out between 1976 and 1989, of the area between Newbury and Reading, show how the pattern o f settlement and the character of landuse relate to the valley's topographical and geological diversity.

Dorset

Smith, R J C, Healy, F, Allen, M J, Morris, E L, Barnes, I, and Woodward, P J, 1997, Excavations Along the Route of the Dorchester By-Pass, Dorset, 1986-8, Wessex Archaeological Report, 11
The results of archaeological survey and excavation undertaken during construction of the A35 Southern By-Pass and the A37 Western Link Road provide an overall study of the development of the landscape of Dorchester and its environs from the Mesolithic to the Medieval period.

Gloucestershire

King, R, Barber, A, and Timby, J, with 6 contributors, 1996, Excavations at West Lane, Kemble: an Iron-Age, Roman and Saxon burial site and a medieval building, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 94, 15-54
Excavations carried out in 1992 and 1993 revealed 3 Iron-Age pit-burials associated with 3rd century BC to early 1st century AD pottery. A late 1st - early 2nd century AD enclosure ditch and a 3rd - 4th century AD inhumation cemetery were recorded, highlighting a hitherto unidentified settlement focus. Five Anglo-Saxon burials were noted and medieval occupation was represented by 12th - 13th century walled property-boundaries, stone quarrying, and by a 13th - 14th century rectangular, two-roomed, stone building associated with smithing activity.

Lincoln

Dobney, K, Jaques, D, and Irving, B, 1996, Of Butchers & Breeds: Report on vertabrae remains from various sites in the City of Lincoln, Lincoln Archaeol Studies, 5
An analysis of animal bone assemblages from over 50 excavations that took place in and around the city of Lincoln, dating from the Iron Age to the post-medieval periods.

Warwickshire

Hingley, R, Booth, P, Ford, W J, Hooke, D, Dyer, C, Alcock, N W, and Symons, D, 1996, Trans Birmingham Warwickshire Archaeol Soc, 100
A review of the progress of archaeological knowledge in the county over the past 20 years for the Prehistoric, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and medieval periods; a study of 17th and 18th century housing extends coverage of the volume into the post-medieval period.