A life in Norfolk archaeology 1950-2016 : : archaeology in an arable landscape / / Peter Wade-Martins.

• Superior document: Archaeological Lives
• VerfasserIn: Wade-Martins, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Archaeopress,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeological Lives
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

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.

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 -- Silvia Addington who counted hedgerows, fieldwalked and researched the documents -- The Brampton excavators ('Excavatores Brantunae') -- TV-sponsored excavations -- Chapter 9: -- Metal Detecting: 'The Norfolk System' -- The 1996 Treasure Act -- Portable Antiquities Scheme -- How 'The Norfolk System' all began -- The 'STOP' campaign -- The Norfolk way is the only way -- The Burgh Castle rally -- Three successful detectorists -- Geophysics and GPS-recording of coin distribution on Dunston Field -- The tidal wave continues -- A happy outcome -- A well-deserved recognition -- Chapter 10: -- Urban Surveys -- The King's Lynn Survey, 1962-71 -- The Norwich Survey, 1971-2002 -- Chapter 11: -- 'RESCUE' -- The Norfolk Archaeological Unit: the birth of the first county-based professional field unit in Britain, from 1973 -- Chapter 12: -- A New County Service for Field Archaeology, 1973-1999.

The role of a County Service -- Museum displays -- The changing legal background -- Chapter 13: -- Key Norfolk Archaeological Unit Projects -- The Sites and Monuments Record -- Aerial photography -- Some outstanding aerial photography discoveries -- The Fenland Survey -- Chapter 14: -- The Story of 'East Anglian Archaeology' -- Chapter 15: -- County-based Conservation Projects -- The Barrow Survey, 1973-76 -- A review of barrow protection, 1983 -- The protection of field monuments -- The Norfolk Monuments Management Project (NMMP), 1990-present -- The County Earthworks Survey, 1994-2000 -- Chapter 16: -- National Conservation Initiatives -- The English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme (MPP), 1986-2001 -- The English Heritage Monuments at Risk Survey (MARS), 1994-1996 -- Natural England's Environmental Stewardship schemes -- Breckland Archaeological Survey, 1994-96 -- A New Prescription for Preserving Archaeological Sites in Breckland: a significant step forward -- Protection under the European Common Agricultural Policy from 2005 -- Chapter 17: -- Some Rescue Excavations, 1972-92 -- Spong Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery, North Elmham, 1972-81 and 1984 -- Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Bergh Apton and Morningthorpe, 1973-75 -- Sixteenth-century pottery kiln wasters from Fulmodeston, 1974 -- Norwich, Anglia TV site on the former Cattle Market, 1979 -- Norwich, St Martin-at-Palace Plain, 1981 -- Norwich, Fishergate, 1985 -- Thetford, Fison Way, 1980-82 -- Norwich Southern Bypass, 1989-92 -- Barton Bendish parish survey, 1980-90 -- Chapter 18: -- Clearing the Publication Backlog from the Past, 1977-97 -- The Caistor Roman town excavations of the 1930s -- Is history now repeating itself? -- Chapter 19: -- Re-structuring Field Archaeology in Norfolk, 1991 -- Norfolk Landscape Archaeology (NLA) -- Archaeological contractors -- Sites and Monuments Record.

Archaeology and planning -- The new Norfolk Archaeological Unit -- A Five-year Development Plan for archaeology in the Museums Service -- County standards for field archaeology -- The County Council's own contracting unit goes into the red -- Chapter 20: -- Time to Move On -- All change -- Chapter 21: -- The Norfolk Archaeological Trust: a property-owning conservation trust -- The early years of the Trust, from 1923 -- Archaeological Trust's first properties -- The Trust takes a new direction -- Chapter 22: -- Caistor St Edmund Roman Town -- Countryside Stewardship Scheme -- Site opening -- Caistor Roman Town Project -- Dunston Field, 2011 -- Chapter 23: -- Burgh Castle 'Saxon Shore' Roman Fort -- Site purchase -- Site management plan -- The wildlife -- The trouble with car parks -- Site interpretation -- The need for site wardens -- Special moments -- Chapter 24: -- Two Monasteries -- Binham Priory -- St Benet's Abbey, Horning -- Chapter 25: -- Other Recent Acquisitions -- Bloodgate Hill Iron Age hillfort, South Creake, 2003 -- Iron Age fort at Church Field, Tasburgh, 1994 -- Middleton Mount motte and bailey, 2006 -- Burnham Norton Carmelite Friary, 2010 -- Fiddler's Hill round barrow, 2012 -- Castle Acre Priory meadows -- Chapter 26: -- The role of a county conservation trust for archaeology -- The Future Role of the Norfolk Archaeological Trust -- Low membership -- Chapter 27: -- A Time to Reflect -- Where are we now? -- And now a new, and potentially larger, publication backlog -- The long-term storage of excavation archives -- Protecting the field evidence in an arable landscape -- Appendix 1: -- Alan Davison's publications -- Appendix 2: -- Summary of progress set out in the 1996 Five-year Development Plan for Archaeology in the Norfolk Museums Service -- Recording services -- Development control.

Monument conservation and interpretation in the countryside -- Identification service -- Outreach -- Presenting monuments to the public -- Appendix 3: -- List of those archaeologists who attended the February 1970 Barford meeting which represented the start of the RESCUE movement -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.