Excavations at Mucking, Essex

This second interim report on a multi-period settlement palimpsest being rescued from annihilation by quarrying for gravel demonstrates that crop-marks are site indicators, not site plans. A sample area even as large as 650 × 500 feet square, containing Belgic, Romano-British, and early Saxon settlement features and parts of two cemeteries cannot be understood out of context. Extensive plans emphasize that successive landscapes share a preference for strategic siting on this gravel terrace at the head of the Thames estuary. The validity of presupposing a wholesale transfer of continental settlement types from the known ‘invasion’ of the Migration period is questioned. The archaeological evidence for the two main house types at Mucking—round and sunken—is described

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Excavation · Geography · Geomorphology · Palimpsest · Period (music · Plucking · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

• Reading the palimpsest

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• Excavations at a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure, Orsett, Essex, 1975

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• The Iron Age

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• Saxon Sunken Huts

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• The Iron Age

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• Implications of Aerial Photography for Archaeology

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• The Dating of Relief‐patterned Flue‐tiles

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• Centralized Storage in Later Prehistoric Britain

  Open Access•Henry Gent•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1983

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• Cemeteries and Settlement Patterns of the Iron Age on the Yorkshire Wolds

  Open Access•John Strickland Dent•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1982

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• An Early Saxon Settlement within the Romano-British Small Town at Heybridge, Essex

  P J Drury, Nicholas Wickenden et al.•Medieval Archaeology•1982

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• Identifying and protecting historic landscapes

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• VII.— A Saxon Village near Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire

  Open Access•E T Leeds•Archaeologia•1923

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• The Anglo-Saxon house

  Open Access•P V Addyman•Anglo-Saxon England•1972

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• Credenhill Camp, Herefordshire

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• The Anglo-Saxon Village of West Stow

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• The Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Site at Upton, Northants

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• Potters' Graffiti from Mucking, Essex

  Open Access•M U Jones•The Antiquaries Journal•1972

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• Quoit Brooch Style Buckles

  Open Access•Vera I Evison•The Antiquaries Journal•1968

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• The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints. Part I. The settlement

  Open Access•Geoffrey Wainwright, Mansel G Spratling et al.•Antiquity•1973

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• Frost and the works of man

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