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Archaeological Test Pit Excavations in Nayland, Suffolk in 2012 and 2014 |
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Access Cambridge Archaeology unpublished report series
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This report presents the results of a programme of archaeological excavation of 50 1m square test pits in the Suffolk village of Nayland carried out in autumn 2012 and autumn 2014. The programme was initially funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund through the Managing a Masterpiece project intended to engage the communities of the Stour valley in their heritage and the follow up excavation was then funded and ran by the Nayland and Wissington Conservation Society. Over the two digs, more than 200 people form the local area took part in the excavations. The results provided new evidence for the development of the area now occupied by the village from the prehistoric period onwards. This appears to have lightly used by humans in the prehistoric period, but in the Roman period a small site, probably a rural settlement was present at the east end of the present village, and a possibly a second site on its west side. No evidence was found for activity in the 5th - 9th centuries AD, but finds of Thetford Ware from a few pits hint at the presence of a limited core of settlement around the present church. The test pit data clearly show the settlement to have grown rapidly into a large and densely packed nucleated market village or small town after the 11th century, arranged along several streets extending out from the core around the church and along the north sides of the Stour River valley. Nayland continued to expand in density, and by inference wealth, in the later medieval period, transcending regional trends dominated by contraction in rural settlements in this period, with the volume of pottery recovered the richest in the eastern region. In the post-medieval period, the test pit data indicates that the settlement stagnated, as other sites caught up. |
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C A Collinson
Carenza Lewis
A Pryor
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Access Cambridge Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2017
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Nayland Big Dig |
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Suffolk |
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Babergh |
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NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON |
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England |
Grid Reference: 597500, 234500 (Easting, Northing)
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accessca1-282208 |
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A4, printed double sided, 200 pages, comb bound
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31 Jan 2019 |