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SHARP is made up of a team of directors, supervisors, trustees and committee members, along with a number of excavators and other volunteers during June-August. From 1997, the project has served as a model for Faulkner's "Democratic Archaeology" in rejecting traditional hierarchies, though is still
147:, medieval and modern remains in the Sedgeford parish, with the West Hall area receiving considerable attention as the historic centre of the modern village. Excavations, including test pits in a number of gardens, have taken place throughout the village. Work has also been done on the 239:– the whole site, excavated from 1996 to 2007, revealed part of an extensive cemetery. Almost 300 articulated human inhumations were lifted, reflecting only a portion of the actual number buried. In addition SHARP recovered a huge quantity of disarticulated human bone ( 71:, and the landowners of the Sedgeford Hall Estate, Bernard and Susan Campbell, about his desire to direct an excavation, leading to the Campbells mentioning the archaeological richness of Boneyard. 123:
The Project is one of the largest training digs in the UK, providing practical training in excavation and recording as well as running taught courses on aspects of the site: e.g. skeletal remains,
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oven. Several unusual aspects of the find led to it being described as "an unsolved murder" in the local and national press. There are few equivalent
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Jewell, P.A.; Wade, K.; Clutton-Brock, J. (1958). "The Excavation of a MIddle Saxon Occupation Site and Burial Ground at Sedgeford, Norfolk".
243:). The size of this burial site, particularly as there is no large population centre known nearby, makes it a very unusual skeletal archive. 261:– Found in 2009 within the excavations looking at the settlement within the Chalkpit field. Radiocarbon dated between 2458 – 2200 cal BC. 481: 428: 403: 373: 325: 306: 287: 127:, and Anglo-Saxon history. However, unlike most training sites, it is independent from any one academic institution and operates as a 267:– Found the following year in 2010, 25m from the late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Burial. Radiocarbon dated between 373 and 203 BC. 573: 563: 544: 64: 184:
terminal of the main body of the Sedgeford torc (found in 1965) has been reunited with the rest of the artefact in the
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excavated small trenches on the "Boneyard Field" and recorded a number of human burials and features.
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Cross, Pamela J. (2011). "Horse Burial in First Millennium AD Britain: Issues of Interpretation".
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Campbell, Bernard (2014). "Foreword". In Faulkner, Neil; Robinson, Keith; Rossin, Gary (eds.).
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Sedgeford Aerodrome and the aerial conflict over North West Norfolk during the First World War
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Sedgeford Aerodrome and the aerial conflict over North West Norfolk during the First World War
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SHARP Team (2014). "Introduction". In Faulkner, Neil; Robinson, Keith; Rossin, Gary (eds.).
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Faulkner, Neil (2014). "Foreword". In Faulkner, Neil; Robinson, Keith; Rossin, Gary (eds.).
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site. This human skeleton had been burned in a feature believed to be a fire-pit for a
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Over the years a number of particularly unusual discoveries have been made:
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Apart from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, fieldwork has also been conducted on
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Faulkner, Neil; Robinson, Keith; Rossin, Gary, eds. (2014).
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cemetery located to the south of the modern village of
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Index

Norfolk
archaeology

University of Cambridge
Sorrento
Neil Faulkner
University College London
Anglo-Saxon
Sedgeford
parish
excavation
geophysical survey
fieldwalking
metal detection
community archaeology
artefacts
registered UK charity
Iron Age
Roman
First World War
Aerodrome

The Sedgeford Torc
torc
British Museum
staters
horse burial
Roman
grain-dryer
malting

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