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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Intro; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Résumé; 1. Introduction: Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Research in East Anglia; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Physical setting and the Suffolk Rivers; 1.3 The Suffolk Rivers: archaeo-environmental potential and threats; 1.4 Outline of this monograph; 1.5 The Suffolk River Valleys Project (2007); 1.6 Commercial palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeological study in the Suffolk River Valleys (2005-2012); 1.7. Archaeological excavations and analyses in the Lower Waveney Valley (Beccles, Barsham and Geldeston); 1.8 Methodologies. |
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2. The Suffolk River Valleys Project (SRVP) Phases I and II (2006-2008)2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Study site selection and methodologies; 2.3 SRVP fieldwork, palaeoenvironmental assessments and radiocarbon dating; 2.4 Discussion; 2.5 Summary: the Suffolk River Valleys Project Phases I and II; 3. Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Suffolk River Valleys: Birmingham Archaeo-Environmental Commercial Projects 2005-2012; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The River Gipping; 3.2.1 Stowmarket: Stowmarket Relief Road; 3.2.2 Stowmarket: Station Road; 3.2.3 Great Blakenham; 3.2.4 Cedars Park. |
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3.3 The River Stour3.3.1 Sudbury AFC; 3.3.2 Wixoe; 3.4 The River Lark; 3.4.1 Bury St Edmunds: the Abbey Precinct; 3.4.2 Bury St Edmunds: Eastgate Street; 3.4.3 Rushbrooke-Nowton; 3.5 The east coast of Suffolk; 3.5.1 Ipswich Docks (Albion Wharf); 3.5.2 River Orwell, Ispwich Triangle; 3.5.3 Ipswich Mills; 3.5.4 Sizewell: Sizewell Belts; 3.6 Discussion: palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeological evidence from commercial projects in the Suffolk River Valleys; 4. Archaeological Excavations and Analyses of a Late Prehistoric Timber Alignment: The Beccles Project (2006-2012); 4.1 Introduction. |
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The study area4.2 Summary of excavations at Beccles in 2006 (BCC-043) and 2007 (BA1472); 4.3 The Beccles Project (2006-2012): understanding, contextualising and managing a later Iron Age wetland site; 4.3.1 Methods; Airborne remote sensing, borehole excavation and deposit modelling; Geophysical survey; 4.3.2 Results of the survey phase; 4.4 Excavations and analyses; Trench array; Site stratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological wood analyses and chronology; Condition assessment of timber, soil chemistry and water table modelling; 4.5 Results from 2009 excavations at Beccles; Trench 1. |
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Trench 2Trench 3; Trench 4; Trench 5; Trench 6; Test Pit; 4.6 Post-excavation analyses; Archaeological wood analyses; 4.6.1 Small finds: pottery, burnt flint; 4.6.2 Site chronology and phasing; 4.6.3 On-site palaeoenvironmental analyses; Methods: plant macrofossils and beetles; Pollen analyses; Results: plant macrofossils; Results: beetles; Results: pollen analyses; 4.7 Summary: Beccles -- a later Iron Age timber alignment; 5. Archaeological Excavations and Analyses of other Late Prehistoric Timber Alignments in the Waveney Valley: Excavations at Barsham (2007) and Geldeston (2011). |
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5.1 Introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeological geology -- England -- Suffolk.
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Archaeological geology. |
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England -- Suffolk. |
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Electronic books.
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Howard, Andy.
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Chapman, Henry, 1973-
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Print version: Geary, Benjamin. Down By the River : Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigations of The Suffolk River Valleys. Havertown : Oxbow Books, ©2016 9781785701689 |
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178570169X |
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9781785701719 (electronic book) |
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1785701711 (electronic book) |
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9781785701696 (electronic book) |
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9781785701689 |
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9781785701702 (MOBI) |
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