A Life in Norfolk's Archaeology Archaeology in an Arable Landscape.
A personal history of Peter Wade-Martins archaeological endeavour in Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the writer's early experiences as a volunteer, the rise of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve archaeological heritage.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2017.
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Colección: | Archaeological Lives Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Norfolk Firsts
- Time line of key events most of which feature in the Book
- Chapter 1:
- Introduction
- Chapter 2:
- The Early Years
- A farming background
- Growing up on a chicken farm
- A first taste of archaeology
- Bloxham School, 1957-62
- A volunteer at Norwich Castle Museum
- Warham Camp excavations, 1959
- Ashill Roman enclosure and West Acre Saxon cemetery, 1961
- Thetford Castle excavations, 1962: a near-death experience
- Report writing
- Chapter 3:
- Excavating Deserted Medieval Villages
- Destruction in the countryside
- Thuxton deserted village excavations, 1963-64
- Birmingham University, 1964-67
- Thetford Anglo-Saxon town excavations, 1964
- Grenstein deserted village excavations, 1965-66
- Surveys of other deserted villages
- Postscript: A nostalgic return to Thuxton
- Chapter 4:
- The Launditch Hundred Project, 1967-71
- Fieldwalking: then a new technique
- Unanswered questions about medieval settlement in the Norfolk countryside
- Roman and Early Saxon
- Isolated churches and village greens
- Rural wealth and decline
- Chapter 5:
- The Anglo-Saxon dioceses
- A strongyloid worm started the excavations
- Public and press interest
- Voodoo village
- How much detail to publish in print?
- Linking the excavation phasing to the 'cathedral ruins'
- The pre-Danish Middle Saxon settlement (seventh to ninth centuries: Period I)
- The timber-lined wells
- The bishops return (late ninth and tenth centuries: Period II)
- The Late Saxon timber buildings (eleventh and twelfth centuries: Periods III and IV)
- The cathedral cemetery
- The market place
- Further areas to be excavated
- Writing the report
- Distinguished visitors
- Chapter 6:
- Chance Finds
- A French polychrome jug from Welborne churchyard, 1968
- A Late Bronze Age metalworkers hoard from North Elmham, 1970
- An Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery at The Paddocks, Swaffham, 1970
- Chapter 7:
- Societies
- Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society (NNAS)
- The Prehistoric Society of East Anglia
- The Norfolk Research Committee (NRC)
- Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society (NIAS)
- The Norfolk Archaeological Rescue Group (NARG), 1975-1992, and the Norfolk Archaeological and Historical Research Group (NAHRG) 1992 to present
- Norfolk Historic Buildings Group
- The Federation of Norfolk Historical and Archaeological Organisations
- Chapter 8:
- Amateurs in Action
- John Owles: the fieldwalker/ farmer
- John Turner: the lone excavator
- Brian Cushion who discovered a Roman road and surveyed the majority of the county's earthworks
- Alan Davison who combined the skills of a highly effective fieldwalker and documentary researcher