The Saxon and medieval settlement at West Fen Road, Ely : the Ashwell site

Author

Mortimer, Richard; Regan, Roderick; Lucy, Sam; Ballantyne, Rachel (Contributor); Blinkhorn, Paul (Contributor); Challands, Adrian (Contributor); Dodwell, Natasha (Contributor); Hall, David (Contributor); Higbee, Lorrain (Contributor); Holton-Krayenbuhl, Anne (Contributor); Monteil, Gwladys (Contributor); Mudd, Andrew (Contributor); Percival, Sarah (Contributor); Piper, Phil; Riddler, Ian; Scaife, Robert G.; Hall, Andrew; Abbott, Marcus; Brudenell, Matthew

Document type

Journal

Language

English

Source

East Anglian archaeology/The Saxon and medieval settlement at West Fen Road, Ely : the Ashwell site. 2005, Num. 110, x, 186 p., ill., maps, plans, bibliogr., index

ISSN

0307-2460

Abstract (en)

Excavations by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in 1999 and 2000 on a housing development site of West Fen Road, to the west of Ely city centre, produced abundant evidence of Mid and Late Saxon and medieval settlement. Established in the early 8th c. the site saw continuous occupation, often within the same ditched property boundaries, for almost 800 years, until its eventual desertion in the 15th c. A detailed reconstruction of the settlement history of the site indicates a very stable, but gradually evolving settlement which probably provided food and other services, originally to the monastic settlement, then to the abbey, and subsequently to the bishops. The finds assemblage suggests that the occupants of the settlement did not enjoy a high-status lifestyle; a lack of imported pottery, of high-value metalwork, and an almost total absence of coinage all indicate that this site was somewhat removed from the ecclesiastical power centre to the east.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture and excavations -- United Kingdom
• Excavations
• Great Britain
• West Fen Road||Ely (GBR)
• Architecture
• Archaeological finds
• Material culture
• Anglo-Saxon
• Medieval
• 700-1500

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture et fouilles -- Royaume-Uni
• Fouilles
• Grande-Bretagne
• West Fen Road||Ely (GBR)
• Architecture
• Trouvaille
• Culture matérielle
• Anglo-saxon (art)
• Moyen Age
• 700-1500

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024291

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