A life in Norfolk archaeology 1950-2016 : : archaeology in an arable landscape /

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

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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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Superior document:Archaeological Lives
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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)
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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.

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