Living with the Flood: Mesolithic to Post-Medieval Archaeological Remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire: A Wetland/Dryland Interface

CONTENTS
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Summary
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
	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
	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
	6.3 The Roman coin
	6.4 The Roman pottery
Chapter 7: Early Anglo-Saxon finds
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Early Saxon pottery
	7.3 Ceramic building material
	7.4 Bone and antler artefacts
	7.5 The Anglo-Saxon animal bone
	7.6 The glass beads
	7.7 The buckle loop
Chapter 8: Late Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval finds
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Late Anglo-Saxon and medieval pottery
	8.3 Medieval ceramic building material
	8.4 Animal burials
Chapter 9: Palaeoenvironmental analyses
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Results
	9.3 Discussion
	9.4 Conclusions
	9.5 Charred plant remains and molluscs
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
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