Burrow Hill
At Burrow Hill, and at other Anglo-Saxon sites, houses were probably based on a frame of oak timbers but these had long since rotted away. The walls of the houses consisted of a wattle frame with daub on both sides.
Tiles were made from clay ‘sausages’ pressed together in rows. The upper surface was then moistened and smoothed with a board.
Butchered bones and shells found on the site show which animals, birds and molluscs were eaten. Some of the animals were reared and the others hunted. Young pig was a favourite food as were oysters.
Part of a meal stone or quern, made from lava imported Germany, shows that grain was ground into flour.
In the cesspits there were burnt rye grains – no doubt from the crispy bottom of a loaf – which had passed through the intestine.
Two of the pots found at Burrow Hill. The presence of kiln wasters indicates that they may have been produced on site.