Benjamin Gearey - Down By The River: Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigations of The Suffolk River Valleys

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Names: Gearey, Benjamin R., author. | Chapman, Henry, 1973- author. | Howard, Andrew J., author.

Title: Down by the river : archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeological investigations of the Suffolk river valleys / Benjamin Gearey, Henry Chapman and Andy Howard.

Description: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040529| ISBN 9781785701689 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781785701696 (digital) | ISBN 9781785701702 (MOBI) | ISBN 9781785701719 (PDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Suffolk (England)--Antiquities. | East Anglia (England)--Antiquities. | Rivers--England--Suffolk. | Valleys--England--Suffolk. | Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Suffolk. | Paleoecology--England--Suffolk. | Paleoecology--Holocene. | Archaeological geology--England--Suffolk. | Geology, Stratigraphic--Holocene.

Classification: LCC DA670.S9 D69 2015 | DDC 936.2/64--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040529

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This volume has been funded by Historic England (formerly English Heritage)

Front cover: (clockwise from top left): The excavation of the Ludham medieval boat; The River Waveney near Barsham viewed from close to water level; Laser scan of the timber from Geldeston showing a high-resolution model of prehistoric tool marks.

Contents

Contributors

EAMONN BALDWIN

Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, UK

MICHAEL BAMFORTH

Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK

DR HENRY CHAPMAN

Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, UK

DR EUGENE CHNG

School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

DR WILLIAM FLETCHER

Historic England, Brooklands, 24 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, UK

DR CHRIS GAFFNEY

Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, UK

DR BENJAMIN GEAREY

Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

CLAIRE GOOD

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds, UK

DR CATHERINE GRIFFITHS

University of Wales, Trinity St Davids, UK

DR PAM GRINTER

Birmingham Metropolitan College, Birmingham, UK

DR THOMAS C. B. HILL

Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

EMMA-J. HOPLA

Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, UK

DR ANDY J. HOWARD

Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, UK

KRISTINA KRAWIEC

Archaeology South-East, University College London, Portslade, UK

MICHAEL LOBB

Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, UK

DR PETER MARSHALL

Historic England, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138142 Holborn, London, UK

ANDY MOSS

Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

ABBY MYNETT

Wessex Archaeology, 79 North St. David St., Edinburgh, UK

SARAH PERCIVAL

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds, UK

DR IAN TYERS

Dendrochronological Consultancy Ltd., Lowfield House, Smeath Lane, Retford, UK

DR IAN PANTER

York Archaeological Trust, 47 Aldwark, York, UK

DR EILEEN REILLY

School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland

DR DAVID SMITH

Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, UK

KELLY SMITH

The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

DR WENDY SMITH

Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, UK

CATHY TESTER

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds, UK

DR EMMA TETLOW

Wardell Armstrong LLP, 2 Devon Way, Longbridge, Birmingham, UK

HEATHER WALLIS

206 Woodcock Rd, Norwich, UK

DR INGRID WARD

School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following: Beccles Town Council for their help and support in granting access to Beccles Marshes; Beccles Amateur Yacht Club for allowing the use of their clubhouse as a dig hut during the excavations in 2007 and 2009; The people of Beccles and Geldeston whom attended the open days at the sites; English Heritage, for financial support and advice, especially Magnus Alexander, Dr Jane Siddell and Dr Jen Heathcote. Halcrow/Besl, part funded the work at Beccles in 2006 and at Barsham in 2007 and Christian Whiting acted as liaison; Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service for their role in the excavations at Beccles and Barsham and also in the various commercial projects described in ; The Broads Authority for their support and interest in the excavations at Beccles and for funding the information panel now in place at Beccles Marshes; Helen Moulden who drafted additional figures; The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity students whom took part in the excavations at Beccles and Geldeston for all their hard work. Finally, we thank the anonymous referee for providing useful and constructive advice on an initial draft of this book.

The research presented in this book includes data from the Ordnance Survery Crown Copyright and database rights 2015. Ordnance Survey (Digimap Licence) and the British Geological Survey (Geological Map Data NERC 2015). BG gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Research Publication Fund, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork.