In this volume, Mudd reports on the results of an archaeological excavation undertaken by the Oxford Archaeological unit during 1994, on an area of land at Melford Meadows, just outside Thetford. The excavation examined part of a Romano-British and early Saxon settlement occupying a low sandy ridge beside the River Thet. The Romano-British element of the site included buildings and enclosures which are thought to have belonged to a farmstead occupied from the end of the 1st century until the end of the 4th century. A small peripheral cemetery showed evidence of a range of burial practices...

Archaeological excavation of about 11ha of land at Tower's Fen, Thorney, Peterborough (England),
investigated part of an extensive pattern of ditched enclosures and fields associated with several
waterholes and two ponds. One large pit, which may have been a waterhole, yielded Early Bronze
Age pottery and is radiocarbon dated to the terminal 3rd millennium BC. Two other dates from the
ponds came out at around 1500-1300 BC. The other features were probably also Middle to Late
Bronze Age although the limited quantity of pottery was not datable precisely. Waterlogged...