ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Wallingford's later Saxon defences, the evidence for intramural housing and related activities, as well as potential burh suburbs. An object is housed in the British Museum and is of major value in recognising the emergent demography of authority in late Saxon Wallingford. Pit fills contained early medieval sand-and-limestone tempered ware in context, a Saxon sherd in and a range of medieval fabrics dating from the 11th to mid-13th century. When examining the plan and archaeologies of late Saxon Wallingford, the readers need to consider how far the site was party to change, reinvigoration, religious growth, and economic stimulation. An aspect often under-explored for the pre-Norman period is the degree to which late Saxon urbanism was successful in pulling in population and 'industry' and thereby filling burh interiors and even generating a need for suburban overspill.
