Abstract

The Anglo-Saxon urban landscape in East Anglia Malcolm Atkin INTRODUCTION (Fig. 1) Much of the finance for rescue archaeology in East however, been concentrated in a small number of Anglia over the last ten years has been devoted to major centres and, in all, archaeological invest­ urban archaeology, with a bias towards the origins igation of any kind has been carried out in only nine and early development of the towns. This work has, of the eighty-six historic towns listed in the two FIG. I. Saxon and early-medieval towns in Ea~t Anglia: location and regional geology (after Dunmore & Carr 1976,fig. 1). 28 lANDSCAPE HISTORY c: .:a,..., ::I C:\1' ~ ::I . oN 8: .... - 3 II i!' \C) c: 00 - 0 g :; ~ ·e \C) ~0 c: \.i = c: N - ..a E g ~ ~ -~ t ~ § - ..c: c &~ u - I' j 'C! .... ·a 0\ \.i ~ !l ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1i ~s c: ~ c: .... ~ .... v ~ ..c: v 0 "0 v ~ '0! u ..c: .... E t5 c: c: ! e.o -~ ::I 5 ::I "(;! ~ ..c: ....