Yarnton
Saxon and Medieval Settlement and Landscape
Published on 20. September 2004
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-0-947816-70-4 (ISBN)
Description
From 1989 to 1998, Oxford Archaeology investigated an extensive area of landscape around Yarnton and Cassington, Oxfordshire. Remains dating from the Neolithic up until the Post-Medieval period were examined, revealing a remarkable story of changing settlement and landscape over five millennia. This volume describes the Saxon to Post-Medieval discoveries made between 1990 and 1996, tracing the developments from small-scale early Anglo-Saxon farmsteads to the medieval village, and reveals the profound changes that occurred at Yarnton in settlement, agriculture and social organisation between the end of the Roman empire and the Post-Conquest world. Rare evidence from multi-disciplinary studies shows that many of the key features of this transformation took place during the late 8th and 9th centuries AD, at an earlier date than conventionally believed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
b/w illus throughout, some col pls
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-947816-70-4 (9780947816704)
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Person
Gill Hey is CEO of Oxford Archaeology with research interests in Neolithic Britain.
Content
List of figures; List of plates; List of tables; Summary; Summary in French; Summary in German; Acknowledgements; About this volume. Part One: Introduction Introduction (Gill Hey). Part Two: An Overview Settlement and landscape (Gill Hey et al); Saxon society at Yarnton (Gill Hey); The wider view (Gill Hey). Part Three: The Sites Yarnton: The early Saxon settlement (phase 1) (Gill Hey with Philippa Bradley); Yarnton: The middle Saxon settlement (phase 2) (Gill Hey with Philippa Bradley); Yarnton: The middle Saxon settlement (phase 3) (Gill Hey with Philippa Bradley); Yarnton: The late Saxon settlement (phase 4) (Gill Hey with Philippa Bradley); Cresswell Field: Saxon settlement (Christopher Bell); Worton: Saxon settlement (Gill Hey); Investigation of the wider landscape (various); Geophysical survey (Neil Linford). Part Four: The Finds and Dating Evidence Scientific dating (Alex Bayliss et al); Pottery (various); Artefacts (various); Metallurgy (various); The human burials (Angela Boyle); Animal bone (Jacqui Mulville et al); Environmental evidence (James Greig et al ); Bibliography; Index.