Rather than concentrate solely on finds from the parish of Besthorpe it is more reasonable to establish the patterns of human activity and environmental development along the Trent Valley north of Newark where the river and its sand and gravel terraces have offered changing opportunities to people for at least 15, 000 years.
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Publications include " Yarnton : Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement and Landscape ", which describes the Iron Age and Roman occupation of a multi-period landscape on the floodplain and gravel terrace of the River Thames, " Archaeology at the Waterfront : 1 : Investigating Liverpool's Historic Docks ", which presents the findings of the largest campaign of archaeological investigation yet undertaken along Liverpool s historic waterfront by Oxford Archaeology North and the National Museums Liverpool Field Archaeology Unit, " Remember me to all : The archaeological recovery and identification of soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Fromelles, 1916 ", which describes Oxford Archaeology's contribution to a joint Australian and British government mission, under the management of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, to recover the soldiers and re-bury them with full military honours in a new Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Fromelles, and " Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire : The evolution of a South Midlands landscape ", which reports on extensive excavations near the village of Broughton on the outskirts of Milton Keynes that revealed the fluctuating fortunes of neighbouring settlements from the Iron Age to the medieval period.
