Please find a attached a discussion paper looking at the future role of environmental archaeology at Sedgeford. Any views on this paper would be much appreciated and should be posted at this location no later than Friday 18 May 2009.

Hi Adrian,

Just wanted to let you know that I read this with interest. I don't have much to add except that I agree that there should be a considered strategy and that there is definitely room for environmental research.
It is curious about the lack of fish bones, especially considering the amount of mussel and oyster shell. Kris Poole - if I remember his talk rightly - suggested that the faunal remains pointed to a period when there was a possible ecclesiastical community, followed by a high status community (based on evidence for hunting. I would have thought that fish would have been an important part of the the diet of a religious community, for the days when meat was forbidden. It would be interesting to how fish bone presence correlated with these periods - but perhaps there isn't enough evidence to tell.