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28th January 2008, 11:25 AM
Hello all,
something in the back of my head is telling me that there were still a few SFBs knocking around until around the 12th century, but I can't remember where I got that idea from. The latest I can pin down are from 11th century Northampton.
Can anyone give me examples (and references to chase) for late SFBs in East Anglia?
Thanks in advance.
TW
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28th January 2008, 04:12 PM
Have you discovered the excellent Google Books?
http://books.google.com/books?q=sunken+floored+building
Most of this seems Roman, but there is some Saxon here.
Disclaimer: this is not an adequate substitute for a library, but it really can take some of the legwork out of going though journals. Plenty of the older journals are fully scanned in and searchable.
Incidentally just recorded some probable SFB's, though I couldn't exactly swear that they weren't fishponds.
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29th January 2008, 05:09 PM
Interesting resource as well... have added it to BAJR 2.5 thanks fro taht!
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Was on a site in north Cambridgeshire (can't recall name of place) bout 12 years ago,and the P.O. thought our one was 10/11th in date.
It springs to mind because at our morning break he asked me if i "know what a S F B was",i stood up hands in front like a puppet and said "thats a S F B Mr.Tracy",every-one but him fell about laughing! obviously not a Thunderbirds fan.
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10th March 2008, 05:11 PM
In Jess Tipper's excellent book on the Grubenhaus there are references to urban 9th to 12th century SFB's (such as the Coppergate examples)which the author classes as a differnt category of building than the early and middle Anglo-Saxon varieties. Ones in the country are much rarer. Some examples dating to the 13th and 14th century are cast doubt on because the excavator had previously dug early saxon ones, and the suggestion is that this experience biased the interpretation. There are also cases of early Saxon SFB's with 11th and 12th century material in the top fills suggesting they were left still hollows in the medieval period. I personally have dug very SFB-like features in East Yorkshire with 11th 12th century material in them. The site also had legitimate middle Saxon SFB's with which I can only assume that the apparent medieval examples were contemporaneous.
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12th March 2008, 02:54 PM
I'm sure there was evidence for some late ones at the Doncaster North Bridge site in the early 1990s, although I can't find a site report to back this up.
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14th March 2008, 04:49 PM
Rumour has it that the Canterbury Archaeological Trust are currently digging SFBs of 11th-14th century date on their Thanet Earth project -see
http://www.canterburytrust.co.uk/thanearth.html for details of this site.
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21st March 2008, 02:38 PM
was asked once by a Police Sergeant why did the romans bury their buildings so deep-is that summat similar to a SFB?
