Multiperiod
Britain
Allen, J, and St John Holt, A, 1997 Health and safety in field archaeology, SCAUM British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography, vol 1 no 2, Council for British Archaeology
Manual outlining information concerning good health and safety practice.
Berkshire
Barnes, I, Butterworth, C, Hawkes, J, and Smith, L, 1997 Excavations at Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire, 1986 88: prehistoric and Romano-British occupation of the floodplain and a terrace of the River Thames, Wessex Archaeol Rep, 14
The results of an evaluation and series of excavations undertaken by Wessex Archaeology on behalf of Thames Valley Business Park Ltd. The report is divided into the 1986 evaluation, the 1987 terrace excavations, and the 1988 floodplain excavations, and by period (including Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano-British) within each excavation season.
Hawkes, J, and Fasham, P, (eds) 1997 Excavations on Reading waterfront sites 1979 1988,Wessex Archaeol Rep, 5
Excavations during the period 1979 86 revealed evidence for human activity from the fourth millennium BC to the early ninteenth century AD in the town that grew up around the River Kennet close to its confluence with the Thames. Over 1000 individual timbers were recorded, enabling a detailed dendrochronological sequence to be compiled, running from the mid thirteenth to the late eighteenth century.
Gloucestershire
Boyle, A, Jennings, D, Miles, D, and Palmer, S, with 5 contributors, 1998 The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Butler's Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, volume 1: prehistoric and Roman activity and grave catalogue, Oxford Archaeol Unit, Thames Valley Landscapes, 10
Excavations undertaken in 1985 revealed an Anglo-Saxon cemetery that comprised 219 inhumed individuals in 199 graves and 29 cremation deposits. The associated grave goods suggest that the cemetery was in use from the mid or late fifth century until the late seventh century. The prehistoric remains comprised an Early Bronze Age ring ditch, several cremations, a series of linear boundaries of Late Bronze Age Early Iron Age date, a roundhouse, a 4-post structure and a scatter of pits and postholes. Roman activity was represented by several quarry pits, a large ditch orientated north-east to south-west, and several smaller ditches.
King, R, Barber, A, and Timby, J, 1996 Excavations at West Lane, Kemble: an Iron Age, Roman, and Saxon burial site and a medieval building, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 114, 15-54
Fieldwork revealed evidence indicating continuous occupation at Kemble since prehistoric times. Three Iron Age burials were noted, associated with third-century BC to early first-century AD pottery. A late first- to early second-century AD enclosure ditch and a third- to fourth-century AD inhumation cemetery were recorded, highlighting a hitherto unidentified settlement focus. Five Anglo-Saxon burials were noted, representing a rare regional example of apparent long-lived cemetery continuity. Medieval occupation was represented by twelfth- to thirteenth-century walled property boundaries, stone quarrying and by a thirteenth- to fourteenth-century rectangular, two-roomed, stone building associated with smithing activity.
Hereford and Worcester
Hurst, J, (ed) 1997 A multi-period salt production site at Droitwich: excavations at Upwich, CBA Res Rep, 107
This report describes excavations at Upwich during 1983 84, which revealed a substantial waterlogged archaeological sequence that contained well preserved remains of the late prehistoric, Roman, sub-Roman/Anglo-Saxon, medieval, and post-medieval periods, including evidence of brine extraction and salt manufacture.
Kent
Bannister, R, and Watt, T, 1997 Wye: 10,000 years of a Kentish community and its landscape, Wye College and Kent County Council
An introduction to the history and archaeology of the Royal Manor and parish of Wye and its neighbour, Brook.
Lincolnshire
Elsdon, S, 1997 Old Sleaford reveale: a Lincolnshire settlement in Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and medieval times: excavations 1882 1995, Oxbow Monogr, 78, Oxford
Excavations begun in 1882 revealed evidence of occupation from the Iron Age through to medieval times. This volume assesses the array of data from more than a century of archaeological activity. A substantial Middle Iron Age palisaded enclosure, and a Late Iron Age indicate an important tribal centre of the pre-Roman people. The Late Iron Age settlement was characterised by ditches, pits, and gullies of what were probably small, undefended enclosures clustered together over a large area. The settlement continued into the Roman period with no apparent hiatus. An early Saxon cremation cemetery lay nearby and finally the medieval church of St Giles with its extensive churchyard was placed on top of the Roman buildings.
Norfolk
Rogerson, A, Davison, A, Pritchard, D, and Silvester, R, 1997 Barton Bendish and Caldecote: fieldwork in south-west Norfolk, E Anglian Archaeol Rep, 80
This volume details the results of three projects in south-west Norfolk. The first is an extensive field-walking survey of Barton Bendish Parish, the second an area excavation within the main village of Barton Bendish, and the third, a detailed field-walking survey of multiperiod activity on a field adjacent to the site of a deserted medieval settlement of Caldecote. The diverse range and quality of evidence gained from surface artefact collection and excavation combine with the historical sources to provide a sound basis for the understanding of human settlement and land-use patterns in Barton Bendish from the Iron Age to the seventeenth century.