ABSTRACT
The most complete write-up of the three years of excavation at Faxton is for Croft 52–53 in 1968. Below Lawrence Butler’s text is retained with only minor copy-edits and the addition of an introduction and a conclusion which were written up for other purposes by the excavator. This finalised text evidently supersedes that which circulated as an interim report where some of the detail and phasing is slightly different but no indication of dating is provided. What survives of the recording on site is far less satisfactory. Although there is a site pocket notebook with 26 pages of jottings, it adds little which is new; there are very few photographs of the site, no section drawings and what remains in terms of plans represents only the beginning and end of the recording and publication process. There is a roll of preliminary on-site sketches which lack any precision and final bromides which bear little relation to one another; final on-site plans and the linen-backed plans from which the bromides were taken are all now lost. There is sufficient, however, to add minor details to the phase plans.
