A Life in Norfolk's Archaeology Archaeology in an Arable Landscape.

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.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Wade-Martins, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2017
Series:Archaeological Lives Ser.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Norfolk.
Norfolk (England) > Antiquities.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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