ABSTRACT
First, thanks must go to those colleagues who helped in the production of this report. Miss Barbara Noddle has written on the mammalian bones discovered, Mr Don Bramwell on bird bones, Mr Alwyne Wheeler on fish bones and Mr Fred Wood-ward on shellfish. All these reports have helped to set the evidence from the excavations in its natural context and Nicholas Balaam’s work on the pollen samples has carried the environmental evidence a further step forward. Miss Joan Sheldon and Professor G. W. Dimbleby have given help and advice over the wood sample, Dr R. F. Tylecote, Dr H. M. Battey and Mr Henry Cleere gave invaluable assistance in understanding the fused material from the working area, and Mr James Graham Campbell has kindly contributed a note on the clay moulds. Dr John Hayes helped with a very useful discussion of the sherd of North African red slip ware, and Mr John Hurst has advised on the medieval pottery. Readers will already have seen, in Section VII, the late Dr Calvin Wells’ great contribution to the understanding of the burials at Martyrs’ Bay – without his report that excavation would have been of minimal importance. In Section VIII Dr John Pilcher at Belfast and Dr Robert Otlet at Harwell have been very helpful over radio carbon dates. Bob Downey drew all the figures for publication using drawings prepared at different times by Peter Baker, Peter Broxton, David Viner and many other individual diggers. I have to thank the Photographic Department of the Institute of Archaeology over the half tone illustrations, originally taken by Mike Woodfield
