Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: The Evolution of a South Midlands Landscape

by Rob Atkins, Gareth Rees, Dan Stansbie, et al.

Extensive excavations near the village of Broughton, which lies on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, revealed the fluctuating fortunes of neighbouring settlements from the Iron Age to the medieval period. A middle Iron Age 'hamlet' was succeeded in the 1st century BC by various farmsteads which were at their height in the early Roman period. Associated with these were richly furnished cremation cemeteries of Aylesford(-Swarling) type, with burial continuing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190758806X
• ISBN13: 9781907588068
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford Archaeological Unit
• Length: 486 Pages