Medieval to Modern Suburban Material Culture and Sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge Archaeological Investigations of an Eleventh to Twentieth-Century Suburb and Town Ditch
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output identifier
- 10478
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.17863/CAM.52197
- Publisher
- Cambridge Archaeological Unit Urban Archaeology Series
- ISBN
- 9781902937786
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph documents and interprets large-scale excavations of a medieval suburb of Cambridge. The Grand Arcade site comprised a highly complex urban stratigraphic sequence spanning over 800 years. The project took 18 years (1997-2015), with the main excavations lasting 17 months and involving 48 staff. The site included 2100 below ground features plus a comparable quantity of above ground standing building remains. Post-excavation analysis involved c.30 specialists, who analysed over 127,000 items and 278 samples. The results of a further 27 archaeological investigations were incorporated into the publication. Documentary research in ten archives involved thousands of documents.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The volume has two authors: Craig Cessford and Alison Dickens. Cessford directed the excavations, wrote the grey literature report on the below ground archaeology and co-ordinated the post-excavation and publication programs. Cessford also undertook the post-medieval/modern documentary and cartographic research and was the specialist for several artefact categories (sole author on clay tobacco pipe, co-author on metalwork, worked stone, pottery and worked bone). Cessford was also primarily responsible for all aspects of writing and editing the publication volume.
Dickens was responsible for the initial desk-based assessment and evaluation phases and was the project manager of all stages of the project. Dickens was also responsible for the post-excavation and publication work on the standing buildings.
Cessford and Dickens are co-authors of chapters 1 and 5, while Cessford is sole author of chapters 2, 3, 4 and 7 (with chapter 6 written by a different author Newman).
Cessford can be viewed as the principal author of the publication and as providing the majority of the intellectual content. Overall, his authorial and editorial contribution represents over 80% of the volume.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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