Several sites within Suffolk have been the subject of dedicated research and VASLE has benefited in particular from John Newman's collated data for the important sites at Barham and Coddenham. Analysis of PAS data suggested a further three parishes: Freckenham, Ixworth and Lackford as potential areas of Middle or Late Saxon activity. Judith Plouviez, at the Suffolk HER extracted the PAS data from visibly discrete areas within these parishes (i.e. excluding outlying finds from the parish's assemblage). As with the Norfolk data, no more than one site was noted from each parish (with the exception of Freckenham, where the data were extremely complex and only the main area of activity was considered). Each site has therefore been assigned the overall parish name. These extracts formed the assemblages of the VASLE sites, which, as with the PAS data, can be reconstructed using the PAS Find ID in the 'SourceArtefactID' field of the archived VASLE 'Sites dataset'. As these data were all derived ultimately from the PAS database, the same process was used for dating the artefacts as Middle Saxon, Late Saxon or Middle/Late Saxon.
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