Archaeological Research in Binsted, Kingsley and Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire

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This publication deals with the archaeological and documentary evidence for mans' activities in Binsted and Kingsley (Hampshire/Surrey, S. England) during this period between the last Ice Age and the post-medieval period. An interim publication on the Alice Holt Roman potteries contains a short section on the contemporary landscape, accompanied by a rather rudimentary map of the distribution of Roman sites in Binsted and Kingsley parishes between Alton and the Hampshire/Surrey county boundary in north-east Hampshire. The ten years following this publication saw an intensive programme of landscape study in order to explore and understand the changing pattern of human settlement and land utilisation within the area over the last 10000 years or so. Conclusions of the current research reported in this volume are based on seven years of field-walking between 1981 and 1988, as well as some carried out during the early 1970s. All but about half a dozen of the arable fields within the 42 square kilometres of land encompassed by the two parishes were walked and most of the permanent pasture and woodland was also examined. This fieldwork was backed up by the survey of a number of vernacular buildings dating from before AD 1300 to c. AD 1700. Five flights were also carried out between 1981 and 1983 for the purpose of air photography. Excavations were carried out on Alice Holt Roman pottery waste dumps and other sites of all periods in and around the forest. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents List of Figures Plates (pp. 313-350) Introduction and Acknowledgements Part 1: Landscape and Buildings Surveys, Documentary Research and Minor Excavations 1. Geomorphology of the Landscape 2. The Mesolithic Period 3. The Neolithic Period 4. The Early and Middle Bronze Ages 5. The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 6. The Middle and Late Iron Ages 7. The Roman Period 8. c. AD 420 to 750/80 9. c. AD 750/80 to 1150 10. c. AD 1150-1350 11. c. AD 1350-1550 Part 2: The Excavations 13. Excavations on Alice Holt Waster Dump AH.5 in 1974 14. Excavations on Alice Holt Waster Dump AH.52 in 1977-79 15. Test Pitting on Kiln Waster Dump AH.46 in advance of the widening of the A325 in 2003 16. Note on a Water Pipeline Trench cut through Waster Dump AH 28 in June 2011 17. Finds from and Excavations at Holt Pound, Binsted 18. A Forestry Drainage Ditch Section through Waster Dumps AH 91A and 91B in Abbotts Wood made in March 2003 19. A Late Roman Assemblage of miniature pottery vessels from excavations at the Kingsley Country Market site in 1980 21. Excavations to the north-east of St Nicolas Chapel, Kingsley in 1979 22. Excavations at Lode Farm, Kingsley 1985-87 23. Excavations at the house called Cobdens in Binsted Street, Binsted in 1983 24. Excavations in and around Goose Green Lodge and Park at the southern end of Alice Holt Forest APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2 Bibliography Plates