Living with the Flood

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Background to the project
1.2 Location, geology and preservation potential
1.3 Archaeological and historical background
1.4 Research context and aims
1.5 Structure of this book

Chapter 2: Methodologies
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Mapping aims onto methods
2.3 Methods

Chapter 3: The excavations
3.1 Introduction: phasing and chronology
3.2 Survival and preservation
3.3 Site narrative
3.4 Summary

Chapter 4: Prehistoric lithics (by Barry John Bishop)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Late glacial flintworking
4.3 Mesolithic and early Neolithic flintworking
4.4 Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age flintworking
4.5 Discussion

Chapter 5: Prehistoric pottery (by Anne Woodward)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ceramic traditions – typologies, succession and contextualisation
5.3 Discussion

Chapter 6: Roman period finds
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Roman ceramic building material (by Sue Anderson)
6.3 The Roman coin (by Roger White)
6.4 The Roman pottery (by R. Perrin)

Chapter 7: Early Anglo-Saxon finds
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Early Saxon pottery (by Sue Anderson)
7.3 Ceramic building material (by Sue Anderson)
7.4 Bone and antler artefacts (by Penelope Walton Rogers and D. James Rackham)
7.5 The Anglo-Saxon animal bone (by Matilda Holmes)
7.6 The glass beads (by Cecily Cooper)
7.7 The Buckle Loop (by Penelope Walton Rogers)

Chapter 8: Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval finds
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Late Anglo-Saxon and medieval pottery (by Sue Anderson)
8.3 Medieval ceramic building material (by Sue Anderson)
8.4 Animal burials (by Matilda Holmes)

Chapter 9: Palaeoenvironmental analyses (by B. Gearey, E-J. Hopla, E. Reilly and R. McKenna, with a
contribution by V. Fryer (charred plant remains and molluscs)
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Results
9.3 Discussion
9.4 Conclusions
9.5 Charred plant remains and molluscs (by V. Fryer)

Chapter 10: Prehistoric and Roman activity
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The first settlers – a sedentary population or seasonal use of a preferred place? Mesolithic to Bronze Age activity
10.3 Abandonment? Iron Age and Roman evidence
10.4 Conclusions

Chapter 11: Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval activity
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Roman/Anglo-Saxon transition
11.3 Reclaiming the floodplain – an Anglo-Saxon settlement
11.4 Medieval and post-medieval ditch systems
11.5 Conclusions

Chapter 12: Conclusions: life on the wetland edge
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Narrative
12.3 Reconsidering the aims of the project, and recommendations for future research
12.4 Final remarks

Appendix 1: Catalogue of the struck lithic material detailed by individual context
Appendix 2: Palaeoenvironmental and radiocarbon tables
Appendix 3: Animal bone tables
Appendix 4: Roman Pottery tables
Appendix 5: Radiocarbon dating and analysis from the Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured buildings