The Fenland Project Number 5: Lincolnshire Survey, The South-West Fens

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With contributions by Hilary Healey, John Samuels, and illustrations by Mick Clarke, Hilary Healey, Jim Bennett, David Taylor, Dave Watt and Margaret Mathews. Four contiguous but distinct landscape zones are discussed, using fieldwork results, air survey, documentary and topographical data. The use of these different landscapes by early communities is compared and contrasted. Apart from the difference in date between the pre-Flandrian, clay, silt and peat surfaces, another chronological variation existed: the division of the clay fens into northern and southern zones. The southern clay formed and matured up to 500 years earlier, and the interaction between settlement and land use can be clearly traced in the changing balance of occupation between the north and south clay fens. List of Contents v List of Plates vi List of Figures vi List of Tabies viii Contents of Microfiche viii Contributors viii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations ix Summary x Introduction 1 The Parish Essays: Billingborough to Hacconby 17 The Parish Essays: Morton to Crowland 121 Summary of the Parish Essays 205 Iron Age and Roman Salterns in the South-Western Fens 218 Prehistoric Ceramics 230 Roman pottery and landscape archaeology in the south Lincolnshire fens 234 The Saxon Pottery 249 A note on the presence/absence of animal bones 253 Stone Axes 254 Conclusions 256 Bibliography 258 Index 262 Microfiche (85 pp.)