Post-medieval
Britain
Ponsford, M, and Jackson, R, 1996 Post-medieval Britain and Ireland in 1995, Post-Medieval Archaeol, 30, 245-320 Annual roundup of sites and discoveries.
East Sussex
(see M Gardiner in the Medieval section)
Northamptonshire
Shaw, M, 1996 The excavation of a late 15th- to 17th-century tanning complex at The Green, Northampton, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 30, 63-127
Excavations in 1983 revealed up to three tanneries. The phase of tanning activity can be divided into two: sub-phase 1 (c 1470-1550) comprises the Western, Northern (Phase 1), and North-Western tanneries and sub-phase 2 (c 1550-1700) is composed of the Northern (Phase 2), Eastern, and Central tanneries, although it is possible that all three formed a single tanning complex. Evidence of earlier activity in the area, principally of late Saxon medieval date, was uncovered, but the main phase of tanning activity coincided with a period of dereliction.