Excavations in advance of gravel extraction provided evidence for a multi-period site with features ranging in date from the early Neolithic through to the Saxon period.
The project is looking to identify and characterise areas exhibiting trends in ship losses due to environmental, structural and meteorological navigational hazards.
The light and well-drained sands and gravels, which provide a fundamental raw material for the modern building industry, provided the ideal location for early settlement and agriculture.
The aim of this project is to predictively model the landscape of a major river confluence over a time-scale of millennia and at a spatial scale appropriate for archaeological management.