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EAA 177: Living with Monuments - Excavations at Flixton vol II (Paperback)
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EAA 177: Living with Monuments - Excavations at Flixton vol II (Paperback)
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph, 177
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Flixton Park Quarry lies in Suffolk on the south side of the
Waveney Valley, on land that has been subject to aggregate
extraction for many decades. Historically there was virtually no
archaeological recording but the areas opened up since 1995 have
all been subject to formal archaeological excavation under the
auspices of archaeological planning guidance. The river terrace
gravels of lowland Britain have historically provided a rich source
for mineral extraction and aerial photography is often the only
surviving record of large tracts of archaeological landscape that
were destroyed before it became the legal responsibility of quarry
operators to provide for archaeological work. Clearly, these
multi-period landscapes are a finite and dwindling resource and it
is essential to glean as much information as possible in advance of
their development-led destruction. The significance of the Flixton
Quarry site is not necessarily that the archaeology is unique,
indeed aerial photographs often suggest a similar range of both
funerary and settlement remains elsewhere, but the opportunities to
excavate such large areas do not often occur. The extensive
prehistoric archaeology in this volume is dominated by monumental
structures of the Early Neolithic (long barrow) and Early Bronze
Age (ring-ditches). There were small clusters of unurned cremations
of Middle Bronze Age date, a period which may also have seen the
initiation of an extensive rectilinear field system. Settlement
evidence from the Late Bronze Age included circular timber
buildings and also four- or six-post square and rectangular
structures that continued to be built into the Early Iron Age.
Significant Iron Age/Roman remains included three post-built
structures probably representing large granaries (horrea), two
pottery kilns and a multiple burial, the latter dated artefactually
and by radiocarbon dating to the 1st century AD. Metalwork finds
hint at military contact at this time. The Early Anglo-Saxon period
is represented at Flixton by two cemeteries (published as Volume I,
Boulter and Walton Rogers 2012) and the settlement described here
in Volume II. Structural evidence included post-built 'halls' and
sunken-featured buildings. Artefactual dating suggests the
occupation was broadly contemporary with the cemeteries and may
have been directly associated. Medieval features were limited to a
rectangular enclosure with an entrance to the south that contained
a small square enclosure with a central pit. Post-medieval deposits
were dominated by ditched field boundaries many of which could be
related directly to map evidence and to the farmland and the park
surrounding Flixton Hall. WWI training trenches and latrine pits
were also recorded.
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