Romano-British settlement and cemeteries at Mucking : excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones, 1965-1978 / Sam Lucy and Christopher Evans with Rosemary Jefferies, Grahame Appleby and Chris Going ; with contributions by Jo Appleby, Donald Bailey, Paul Barford, Joanna Bird, David Buckley, J. Cooper, Leslie Cram, P.E. Curnow, Brenda Dickinson, Geraldine Done, Kay Hartley, Colin Haselgrove, Martin Henig, Frank Jenkins, Catherine Johns, Ruth Leary, Hilary Major, Graham Morgan, Quita Mould, Richard Reece, Krish Seetah, Nicole Taylor, Marijke van der Veen, David Williams, and the late Dorothy Charlesworth, Elizabeth Crowfoot, John Evans, Donald Harden and Margaret Jones ; with graphics by Andrew Hall, Vicki Herring, Iain Forbes, Jane Matthews, Joanna Bacon and Amanda Balfour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucy, Sam, author.

Evans, Christopher, 1955- author.

Jefferies, Rosemary, author.

Series:

Cambridge Archaeological Unit landscape archives series. Historiography and fieldwork ; no. 3.

CAU landscape archives series. Historiography and fieldwork ; no. 3

Mucking ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, M. U. (Margaret Ursula), 1916-2001.

Jones, M. U.

Jones, Tom, -1993.

Jones, Tom.

Landscape archaeology.

Social archaeology.

Cemeteries.

History.

Human settlements.

Britons.

Antiquities.

Romans.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mucking (England)--Antiquities.

Mucking (England).

Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Mucking.

Romans--England--Mucking--Antiquities.

Britons--England--Mucking--Antiquities.

Human settlements--England--Mucking--History--To 1500.

Cemeteries--England--Mucking--History--To 1500.

Social archaeology--England--Mucking.

Landscape archaeology--England--Mucking.

England--Mucking.

Physical Description:

xiii, 466 pages ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.

Summary:

Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multi-phase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate centre, and five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding Iron Age occupation with unbroken sequences of artefacts and enclosures through the first century AD, followed by rapid and extensive remodelling, which included the laying out a Central Enclosure and an organised water supply with wells, accompanied by the start of large-scale pottery production. After the mid-second century AD the Central Enclosure was largely abandoned and settlement shifted its focus more to the Southern Enclosure system with a gradual decline though the 3rd and 4th centuries although continued burial, pottery and artefactual deposition indicate that a form of settlement continued, possibly with some low-level pottery production. Some of the latest Roman pottery was strongly associated with the earliest Anglo-Saxon style pottery suggesting the existence of a terminal Roman settlement phasethat essentially involved an ?Anglo-Saxon? community. Given recent revisions of the chronology for the early Anglo-Saxon period, this casts an intriguing light on the transition, with radical implications for understandings of this period. Each of the cemetery areas was in use for a considerable length of time. Taken as a whole, Mucking was very much a componented place/complex; it was its respective parts that fostered its many cemeteries, whose diverse rites reflect the variability and roles of the settlement?s evidently varied inhabitants.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lucy, Sam, author. Romano-British settlement and cemeteries at Mucking.

ISBN:

9781785702686

1785702688

OCLC:

935193739

Publisher Number:

40026642555