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Evolution of a community : the colonisation of a clay inland landscape : Neolithic to post-medieval remains excavated between 1995 and 2011 at Longstanton in Cambridgeshire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul, Samantha
Other Authors: Hunt, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [U.K.] : Archaeopress, [2015]
Series:Archaeopress archaeology.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Longstanton.
Longstanton (England) > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction / E. P. Baldwin
  • Project Background
  • The Archaeology of the Longstanton area
  • Non- invasive Archaeology
  • Sixteen years of Archaeological Excavation at Longstanton West
  • The Village of Longstanton
  • Project Aims and Research Themes
  • Mapping Aims onto Methods
  • Arrangement of the Report
  • Part 1
  • ch. 2 The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology / C. Mould
  • Introduction: Phasing and Chronology
  • Survival and Preservation
  • Site Narrative and Atlas
  • Phases 1 to 2a, Neolithic to Early Bronze Age
  • Phase 2c
  • Late Bronze Age
  • Phase 3
  • Iron Age
  • Phase 4
  • Roman
  • Summary
  • ch. 3 Neolithic and Bronze Age Finds
  • Introduction
  • The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery / Ann Woodward
  • Form and Decoration
  • Fabric
  • Discussion
  • The Late Bronze Age Pottery / Emily Edwards
  • Form
  • Decoration
  • Deposition and Contexts
  • Comparanda
  • Petrography / Rob Ixer
  • Flintwork / Barry Bishop
  • Mesolithic/Early Neolithic
  • Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
  • Deposition
  • Discussion of the Flintwork from Area 7
  • The Portable Finds / Quita Mould
  • Summary
  • ch. 4 The Iron Age and Roman Finds
  • Introduction
  • The Middle Iron Age Pottery / Emily Edwards
  • Form
  • Decoration
  • Fabrics
  • Function
  • Special Deposits
  • Discussion
  • Fired Clay / Ann Woodward
  • Petrography / Rob Ixer
  • Later Prehistoric and Roman Pottery / Matt Brudenell
  • Assemblage Composition
  • Contextual Analysis
  • Discussion
  • The Portable Finds / Quita Mould
  • Phase 3b: Middle Iron Age
  • Phase 3c: Late Iron Age
  • Phase 4: Roman
  • Flintwork / Barry Bishop
  • Later Prehistoric Flintworking
  • Description
  • Deposition
  • Animal Bone / Matilda Holmes
  • Provisioning, Economy and Diet
  • Slags from Site 1559 / Gerry Mcdonnell
  • The Macro Slags
  • The Micro Residues
  • Summary
  • Summary
  • Ch. 5 Inland Incursions: Discussion of the Prehistoric to Roman Activity
  • The First Forays? Mesolithic to Early Neolithic visitors
  • A Preferred Location
  • Late Neolithic Settlement?
  • A Monumental Landscape?
  • Colonising an Inland Clay Landscape
  • The Late Bronze Age Settlers
  • An Iron Age Community?
  • Becoming Roman
  • Part 2
  • ch. 6 The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology / C. Mould
  • Introduction
  • Phasing and Chronology
  • Site Narrative and Atlas
  • Phase 5a
  • Early Anglo-Saxon
  • Phase 5c
  • Late Anglo-Saxon
  • Phase 6a
  • Early Medieval
  • Phase 6b
  • Medieval
  • Phase 6c
  • Late Medieval
  • Phase 7- Post-medieval
  • Summary
  • ch. 7 Early Anglo-Saxon Burial and Ritual
  • Introduction
  • The Human Remains / Natasha Powers
  • Introduction
  • The Burnt Bone
  • The Inhumations
  • Health and Disease
  • Congenital and developmental disease
  • Discussion
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • The Portable Finds / Quita Mould
  • The Stone / Ruth Shaffrey
  • Pottery / Sue Anderson
  • Discussion: Landscape and Ritual in Early Anglo-Saxon Cambridgeshire
  • Ch. 8 Longstanton: Settlement and Economy in a Medieval Cambridgeshire Vill
  • Before the Conquest
  • The `Adventus Normannorum' and Domesday Book
  • Of Manors and Men
  • Lords and Lordship
  • Population and Wealth
  • Life and Livelihood
  • Settlement in Medieval Longstanton
  • Conclusions
  • ch. 9 The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Pottery / Sue Anderson
  • Introduction
  • Condition
  • Pottery by Period
  • Middle Anglo-Saxon
  • Late Anglo-Saxon and Saxo-Norman
  • Early Medieval
  • Medieval
  • Late Medieval
  • Post-medieval and Modern
  • Pottery by Site Phase
  • Phases 5, 5c and 5c/6a
  • Phases 6a and 6a/6b
  • Phase 6b
  • Phase 6c
  • Phase 7
  • Discussion
  • Late Anglo-Saxon
  • Medieval
  • Post-medieval and Modern
  • Conclusions
  • ch. 10 The Late Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Finds
  • Introduction
  • The Portable Finds by Quita Mould
  • Phase 5c
  • Late Anglo-Saxon
  • Phase 5c/6a
  • Saxo-Norman
  • Phase 6a
  • Early medieval
  • Phase 6b
  • Medieval
  • Phase 6c
  • Later medieval
  • Phase 7
  • Post-medieval
  • Modern and unphased contexts
  • The Worked Stone / Ruth Shaffrey
  • Slags / Gerry McDonnell
  • Site 1587
  • Macro slags
  • Site 1587
  • Micro residues
  • Summary
  • Site 1738
  • Macro slags
  • Site 1738
  • Micro residues
  • Summary
  • Site 1138
  • Macro Slags
  • Summary
  • `Where the Bones Lie'
  • The Spatial Analysis of Animal Bones from a Multi-phase SettlementBy Sue Anderson / Matilda Holmes
  • Provisioning, economy and diet
  • Provisioning, economy and diet: discussion
  • Spatial Organisation
  • Organisation of the Site
  • Deposition of activity waste
  • Discussion
  • ch. 11 Charred Plant Remains from the Excavations / Wendy Smith
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Phase 5c
  • Late Anglo-Saxon (Table 1)
  • Phase 5c/6a
  • Saxo-Norman/early medieval (Table 1)
  • Phase 6a
  • Early medieval (Table 2)
  • Unphased Saxo-Norman to Medieval samples from Home Farm, Longstanton (Table 4)
  • Discussion
  • Preservation
  • Cereal grain vs. cereal chaff
  • The recovery of spelt at Longstanton
  • Pulses and legumes at Longstanton
  • The weed/wild taxa
  • Limited evidence for trees/scrub
  • Wetland taxa
  • Taphonomy
  • Comparison with results from Cambridgeshire
  • Conclusions
  • ch. 12 The Archaeology of a Community: Longstanton in the Late Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods
  • Life and Livelihood
  • Late Anglo-Saxon Longstanton
  • Medieval Longstanton
  • Settlement and Landscape
  • Part 3
  • Conclusions
  • Chronologies of Occupation
  • The Basis for Human Activity
  • Origins of Rural Settlement
  • Final Remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • References
  • Abbreviations
  • Websites
  • Appendix 1 Archaeological Project Details
  • Appendix 2 Methodologies and Tables
  • Fieldwork Methods
  • GIS project / Eleanor Ramsey
  • Prehistoric Pottery / Emily Edwards
  • Later Prehistoric and Roman Pottery / Matt Brudenell
  • Saxon and medieval pottery / Sue Anderson
  • Where the bones lie: the spatial analysis of animal bones from a multi-phase settlement / Matilda Holmes
  • Flintwork / Barry Bishop
  • The portable finds / Quita Mould
  • Human Remains / Natasha Powers
  • Report on the Slags / Gerry Mcdonnell
  • Petrography / Rob Ixer
  • Charred plant remains from the excavations / Wendy Smith
  • Appendix 3 Petrography Detailed Sample Descriptions
  • Appendix 4 Animal Bone Tables
  • Appendix 5 Slag Tables
  • Appendix 6 Radiocarbon Dates
  • Appendix 7 Human remains additional data
  • Appendix 8 Small Finds Tables
  • Appendix 9 Other Finds Catalogues.