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