Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. Originally an open settlement, by the Late Iron Age parts of it had been enclosed by an arrangement of small ditches, which underwent some modification over the next two centuries, while keeping their overall layout.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Plates
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Geology and topography
  • Archaeological background
    • Previous archaeological works
• Chapter 2: The Excavation
  • Phasing
    • Presentation of radiocarbon results
  • Features
    • Pits
    • Ditches and gullies
    • Other features
  • Early/Middle Iron Age
    • Roundhouse 4246
    • Square structure 4247
    • Grave 3052
    • Pits and postholes
    • Enclosures 1 and 2a
  • Late Iron Age
    • Enclosures 2b, 3 and 4
    • Pits
    • Burial 3466
  • Early Romano-British
    • Enclosures
    • Pits
    • Other burials
  • Continuity and change
• Chapter 3: Finds
  • Pottery by Rachael Seager Smith
    • Late Bronze Age
    • Iron Age
    • Latest Iron Age and Romano-British
    • 1st century AD
    • 2nd century AD activity
  • Fired clay by Rachael Seager Smith
  • Coin by Nicholas Cooke
  • Objects of metal by A. P. Fitzpatrick
    • Iron Age
    • Romano-British
  • Slag by Phil Andrews
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • Worked flint by Phil Harding
  • Burnt flint by Andrew B. Powell
  • Stone by Lorraine Mepham
  • Worked bone by Lorraine Mepham
  • Human bone by Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • Animal bone by L. Higbee
    • Introduction
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusions
    • Egg shell by L. Higbee
• Chapter 4: Environmental Remains
  • Charred plant remains by Sarah F. Wyles
    • Early and Middle Iron Age
    • Late Iron Age
    • Early Romano-British
    • Conclusion
  • Wood charcoal by Catherine Barnett
  • Radiocarbon dating by Alistair J. Barclay
    • Introduction
    • Site sequence
    • Overall model
    • Results and interpretation
    • Summary sequence
• Chapter 5: Discussion
  • Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Summary of pits
• Appendix 2: Pottery fabric descriptions
• Appendix 3: Latest Iron Age and Romano-British vessel form codes
• Bibliography