Project Context - Acknowledgements ixSummary xiRésumé xiiZusammenfassung xiii Chapter One: Introduction - Landscape and Archival Palimpsests 1Total Archaeology 2Framing Context 10Notebook Archaeology 14Project Framing (I) - Thinking Graphically (Mucking''s ''Phase-wall'') 27Archive as Palimpsest 32 Chapter Two: Scattered Usage and First All otment - Mesolithic to Middle Bronze Age 45Mucking and the Palaeogeography of the Thames Estuary Peter Murphy 48Tracings - Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age Activity 50The Worked Flint Elizabeth Healey 52Mesolithic/Earlier Neolithic 66Pottery Ian Kinnes and Mark Birley 70Grooved Ware 70Pottery Mark Birley 71Mucking''s Grooved Ware Revisited Mark Knight 77Worked Flint Elizabeth Healey 78Beaker 79Graves 79Other Features 82Pottery Alex Gibson 83Worked Flint Elizabeth Healey 88Earlier/Middle Bronze Age 88Barrows 88The Fieldsystem 99Settlement and Other Features 104Pottery Nigel Brown 105Recollections (I) - Fieldwork 110Discussion 119 Chapter Three: The Rings - Late Bronze AgeLate Bronze Age Pottery Groups Matt Brudenell 129The North Field Settlement 133Clay pits 133Pink pits 133The South Rings (with John Etté) 142Distributions 157Material Culture 158Flint Elizabeth Healey 158Late Bronze Age Pottery Matt Brudenell 158Metalwork and Metalworking 187Metalwork (Ben Roberts) 188Bronze Casting at Mucking: The Refractory Evidence (Margaret Jones and Hilary Howard) 190Miscellaneous Small Finds 193Fired Clay Paul Barford 194Quernstones David Buckley and Hilary Major 197Economic and Other Data 200Animal Bone Geraldene Done 200Fired Clay Sources Paul Barford, with Ailsa Mainman 203Appreciation: Margaret Jones - A Legacy of Formidable Field Women Anwen Cooper and Julia Roberts 204Discussion 208Baseline Matters - Dating and Economy 208Layout, Deposition and Status 211Ringwork Communities and ''Monumental Resonance'' 21 Chapter Four: Compounding Spaces and Connected Communities - Iron Age (I) 219Early Iron Age 227Pottery Matthew Brudenell 233The Structures 240Roundhouses 242Rectangular Posthole Structures 270Rectangular Post-Hole Settings (Margaret Jones, with a contribution by Paul Barford) 270''Posters'' and Others 273Enclosures 277The ABC Enclosures 280RBI and Adjacent Settlement 284The North Enclosure and Northern Boundary System 291The 1100 Enclosure (Prehistoric Cemetery II and other Western-margin Interments) 303The Belgic Banjo Complex (and Prehistoric Cemetery III) 311Recollections (II) - Post-Excavation and Aftermath 329The Plaza, Other Parts and Landscape Development 336The Plaza (and Prehistoric Cemetery IV) 336Other Components 349Cemetery V 352The Conquest Period and Early Roman Landscape 355 Chapter Five: Specialist Studies and Summation of Parts - Iron Age (II) 365Material Culture 365Middle Iron Age Pottery Matt Brudenell 365Late Iron Age Pottery - An Overview Isobel Thompson 394Iron Age Coins Colin Haselgrove 401Brooches Colin Haselgrove 402Other Metalwork 412Copper Alloy (Grahame Appleby) 412Ironwork (Quita Mould) 416Metalworking Evidence 417Crucibles, Moulds and Tuyères (David Dungworth and Justine Bayley) 417Bronze Casting: Refractory Evidence (Hilary Howard) 424Quernstones 424Loomweights and Spindlewhorls Paul Barford 425Other Fired Clay 427Tournettes (Paul Barford) 429Economic and Environmental Data 431Fauna Remains Vida Rajkovaca 432Pollen James Greig 436Project Framing (II) - Charting Influence (and Difference) 436''Style in Landscape'' - Distributional Case-studies 438''Type'' Metalwork - Coins and Brooches 439La Tène Wares and Marked Bases 441Late Iron Age Assemblages - ''Belgic'' and Conquest Period Wares 446Discussion - Connected Communities 454Enclosure Models and ''Logics'' 454Landscape Divides and the Lie of Land 457Settlement Resourcing and Status 460Later Iron Age Ceremonial/Household Architectures and Funerary Practices 465 Chapter Six: Patterned Ground/Interim Knowledges - Sequence Revisited and Retrospect 477The Recommendation of Land 479Sequence Revisited and Settlement ''Scaling'' 482Mucking and the Prehistory of the Lower Thames Timothy Champion 482Romano-British 487Anglo-Saxon 489Medieval and Post-Medieval 493The South Essex Marshes in the Medieval and post-Medieval Periods (Stephen Rippon) 496Gauging Settlement - Comparative Context 505Different Lives - Continuities, Territories and Power 513Project Framing (III) - Thinking Archives 526Hindsights - Marking Time 530 Bibliography 535 Index 553.