A Life in Norfolk's Archaeology Archaeology in an Arable Landscape.

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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Main Author: Wade-Martins, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2017.
Series:Archaeological Lives Ser.
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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) 
505 8 |a 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 
500 |a Silvia Addington who counted hedgerows, fieldwalked and researched the documents. 
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