Director: Dr Gabor Thomas
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| Research excavation 2003-5 at the East Sussex village of Bishopstone unearthed one of England's best preserved rural settlements of the later Anglo-Saxon period. Spanning the 8th to the 10th centuries AD, the settlement comprised a planned complex of timber 'halls' accompanied by a diversity of 'service structures'. A marked characteristic of the occupation was a dense concentration of pits filled with large volumes of domestic rubbish, cess and burnt structural remains allowing the economy, culture and living conditions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement to be placed under detailed scrutiny. A human dimension was provided by the outer portion of a pre-Conquest cemetery comprising 43 inhumations representing a mixed population, the majority buried in shrouds. The results of the excavation were published in 2010 as A Later Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Bishopstone: A Downland Manor in the Making (CBA Research Report 163) and offers an interdisciplinary narrative on the 'making' of Bishopstone as a high-status 'manorial' complex, a narrative offering fresh insights into the formation of the medieval landscape. |
Raunds, Northants
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Shapwick, Somerset
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Wharram Percy
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