Saxon, Medieval and Post-Medieval Settlement at Sol Central, Marefair, Northampton : Archaeological Excavations 1998-2002

by Miller, Pat; Wilson, Tom; Harward, Chiz

• ISBN13: 9781901992571
• ISBN10: 1901992578
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Table of Contents

List of tables	xi
Summary	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(1)
Location and circumstances of fieldwork	1	(2)
Organisation of the report	3	(1)
Textual and graphical conventions	3
The pre-Saxon archaeological sequence (periods 1-2)	2	(1)
Geology and topography (period 1)	5	(1)
Prehistoric and Roman evidence (period 2)	5
Archaeological evidence	5	(1)
Period 2 discussion	5
The archaeological sequence, c AD 400-c 1400 (periods 3-6)	3	(1)
Saxon activity, AD c 400-c 850 (period 3)	6	(1)
Documentary evidence	6	(1)
Archaeological evidence	6	(1)
Period 3 discussion	6	(1)
Late Saxon to mid 12th-century activity, c AD 850--- c 1150 (period 4)	7	(9)
Documentary evidence	7	(1)
Archaeological evidence	8	(7)
Period 4 discussion	15	(1)
Medieval expansion, c 1150-c 1300 (period 5)	16	(11)
Documentary evidence	16	(2)
Archaeological evidence	18	(7)
Period 5 discussion	25	(2)
Later medieval stagnation, c 1300---c 1400 (period 6)	27
Documentary evidence	27	(1)
Archaeological evidence	27	(8)
Period 6 discussion	35
The archaeological sequence, c 1400-20th century (periods 7-9)	4	(1)
Later medieval and early post-medieval change and decline, c 1400---c 1600 (period 7)	37	(5)
Documentary evidence	37	(3)
Archaeological evidence	40	(1)
Period 7 discussion	41	(1)
Post-medieval disaster and renewal, c 1600---c 1750 (period 8)	42	(7)
Documentary evidence	42	(2)
Archaeological evidence	44	(1)
Period 8 discussion	45	(4)
Later post-medieval development, c 1750- Documentary evidence	49
Archaeological evidence	50	(7)
Period 9 discussion	57
Aspects of the evidence from the site	5	(65)
Late Saxon and medieval production and consumption	60	(8)
Introduction	60	(1)
Horn working or butchery waste	61	(1)
Metalworking	61	(1)
Malting	62	(1)
Tanning	62	(1)
Pottery production and use	62	(2)
Animal husbandry and the meat diet	64	(1)
Crop husbandry	65	(1)
Crop processing	65	(1)
The non-meat diet	66	(2)
Other food and economic plants	68	(1)
The cemetery of the chapel of St Martin	68	(2)
Dating of the cemetery	68	(1)
The cemetery's foundation	68	(1)
The population of the cemetery	69	(1)
Conclusions	70	(2)
French and German summaries	72	(2)
Bibliography	74	(5)
Index	79