
Landscape Community and Colonisation
The North Somerset Levels During the 1st to 2nd Millennia AD
Stephen Rippon(Author)
Council for British Archaeology (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
317 pages
978-1-902771-67-0 (ISBN)
Description
Oxbow says: From 1993, the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD. The inter-disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological (survey and excavation) data, palaeoenvironmental evidence, studies of documentary sources, architecture, cartography and field- and place-names, to what was already known about the historic landscape. This report, which publishes the findings of the project, examines local and regional changes and variations in the landscape, focusing on two major phases of exploitation, modification and transformation during the Roman and medieval periods. Factors such as agriculture, grazing, salt production, fishing, draining, flood defence, and the establishment of settlements, roads, commons, field systems, as well as cultural factors, are all discussed, as evidence from the local area is placed within a wider regional context. An excellent study which exemplifies all that is new and exciting in landscape study.
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Language
English
Place of publication
York
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
b/w figs and pls
ISBN-13
978-1-902771-67-0 (9781902771670)
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Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter, and President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. His main research interests cover the Romano-British and medieval landscapes of Britain, and the origins of today's countryside.