Medmerry: Coastal change from the Neolithic to Medieval period
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 03/11/2015

Kristina Krawiec, Lucy Allott
ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTH-EAST
The site of Medmerry has been subject to a program of managed retreat through a multi-million pound Environment Agency scheme undertaken in 2011. As part of this scheme the site was subject to set-piece archaeological excavation and palaeoenvironmental investigation. The results of these have demonstrated a range of landscape processes which in conjunction with the archaeological evidence have shown that this area and its inhabitants have been coping with coastal change for thousands of years. The site has now been given over to the RSPB who are forming a ‘new’ wetland which bears striking resemblance to the landscape during the prehistoric period. This paper will present the approach used to investigate a deeply buried palaeoenvironmental resource in order to provide context for the archaeological remains encountered at the site.