Cottam B: an Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian settlement in East Yorkshire

Excavation of the Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian settlement at Burrow House Farm, Cottam, East Yorkshire from 1993-95 was one of the first excavations undertaken of a "productive site", so-called because of the large quantities of early medieval metalwork produced by metal detecting. It also provided an important demonstration of the effects of the re-organisation of land ownership following the Scandinavian settlement of Northumbria. Excavation demonstrated that the abandonment of an Anglo-Saxon "Butterwick" type enclosure in the late 9th century was closely followed by the construction of the new Anglo-Scandinavian farmstead some 100m to the north, reinforcing a trend seen in the horizontal stratigraphy of dated metalwork derived from metal-detecting. The excavation and associated fieldwork were published in the Archaeological Journal 156 (1999), and via an experiment in e-publication in Internet Archaeology 10. The associated digital archive is available from the ADS as 10.5284/1000339, and includes the database of metal-detected finds as then known.

1993年至1995年，考古团队对东约克郡科塔姆（Cottam）伯罗豪斯农场的盎格鲁（Anglian）与盎格鲁-斯堪的纳维亚定居点开展发掘，该项目是首批针对生产性遗址（productive site）实施的考古发掘之一——此类遗址因金属探测（metal detecting）活动出土了海量中世纪早期金属器而得名。本次发掘还为阐释斯堪的纳维亚人定居诺森布里亚后土地所有权重组所带来的影响，提供了关键实证依据。考古发掘结果显示，公元9世纪末盎格鲁-撒克逊的“巴特威克（Butterwick）”式围场被废弃后不久，约100米以北的区域便建起了全新的盎格鲁-斯堪的纳维亚农庄，这一发现进一步佐证了通过金属探测获取的定年金属器横向地层学（horizontal stratigraphy）中所呈现的演变趋势。本次发掘及相关田野调查成果，既刊发于《考古学杂志（Archaeological Journal）》1999年第156期，也通过《互联网考古（Internet Archaeology）》第10期的电子出版实验实现了公开传播。相关数字档案可从考古数据服务中心（ADS，Archaeological Data Service）获取，编号为10.5284/1000339，其中包含彼时已整理完成的金属探测出土器物数据库。