Middle Saxon' Settlement and Society: The Changing Rural Communities of Central and Eastern England

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The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology

“…One of the very great strengths of fieldwalking is that it can be applied on a variety of scales, from the in-depth analysis of individual deserted settlements through to large-scale surveys that record changing patterns of settlement and land-use over time (e.g., Jones 2012;Parry 2006). Fieldwalking cannot be used within currently occupied settlements, but here the technique of small-scale test pitting is proving extremely effective both as a research tool, for example in establishing the periodic expansions and contraction of settlements (e.g., Gerrard with Aston 2007;Hall 2016;Page and Jones 2007;Rippon 2006;Wright 2015), but also as a means of engaging with the public (e.g., Lewis 2016). It is also impossible to fieldwalk permanent pasture, and as such a particularly innovative piece of recent research has been the systematic collection of cultural material from molehills at the deserted medieval port of Monnikerede in Belgium (Trachet et al 2017).…”