Lewis, C., Ranson, C. and Pryor, A. (2013). Archaeological Test Pit Excavations in Nayland, Suffolk, 2012. University of Cambridge: Access Cambridge Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1111213. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological Test Pit Excavations in Nayland, Suffolk, 2012
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Abstract:		 This report presents the results of a programme of archaeological excavation of 34 1m2 'test pits' in the Suffolk village of Nayland carried out in autumn 2012. The programme was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund through the Managing a Masterpiece project intended to engage the communities of the Stour valley in their heritage. 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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Author:		 Carenza Lewis ORCID icon
C Ranson
A Pryor
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Publisher:		 Access Cambridge Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2013
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District: Babergh
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Parish: Nayland-with-Wissington
Grid Reference: 597498, 234300 (Easting, Northing)
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TOKEN (Object England)
COIN (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL TOKEN (Tag)
TEST PIT (Event)
POST MEDIEVAL WALL (Tag)
UNCERTAIN SLAG (Tag)
SLAG (Object England)
WALL (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL COIN (Tag)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods)
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Created Date:		 19 Jul 2023