An Assessment of the potential for in-situ preservation of buried organic archaeological remains at Sutton Common, South Yorkshire
This PhD thesis approaches the issue of the in situ preservation of archaeology, specifically in a wetland environment where it is recognised that organic materials are often preserved in an exceptional condition. The research aims to identify an approach by which wetland archaeological sites can effectively be monitored, their dynamics identified and an accurate assessment of their condition, and that of the archaeological remains preserved within them, be made. Such an insight will help sites to be protected, either through the maintenance or the creation of suitable burial conditions. The study site is Sutton Common, an Iron Age double enclosure located in South Yorkshire. This site has gained importance within the archaeological community in recent years as a direct result of its unique construction and setting within a former wetland landscape and the associated quality of preservation of archaeological remains identified in previous site excavations.