Deserted Villages
Published on 10. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-0-7478-0474-1 (ISBN)
Description
Villages have been abandoned throughout history, and in every part of the British Isles. Some of them are former towns; others were only ever small hamlets. Many still await discovery. This book explains how villages have become deserted - often the result of disease and shrinking populations - and describes how the archaeologist recovers and interprets the evidence and shows how everyone can become involved in discovering and recording sites. Some good examples of sites worth visiting are included.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 col
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7478-0474-1 (9780747804741)
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Trevor Rowley is Deputy Director of the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University. He is a geographer by training and is an acknowledged national authority on landscape history and village studies. His books include Villages in the Landscape and Norman England. He has a special interest in Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, where he was born.
John Wood is Senior Archaeologist for the Highland Council in Scotland. He has extensive experience of the survey and excavation of deserted villages, and since 1995 has directed an annual field school at the deserted village of Easter Raitts, near Kingussie in Badenoch. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University.
John Wood is Senior Archaeologist for the Highland Council in Scotland. He has extensive experience of the survey and excavation of deserted villages, and since 1995 has directed an annual field school at the deserted village of Easter Raitts, near Kingussie in Badenoch. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University.
Content
What is a deserted village?; When and why were villages deserted?; What do deserted villages look like?; Archaeology and deserted villages; How to discover deserted villages; Where are the deserted villages?; Further reading; Sources of Information; Glossary of terms; Fieldwork questionnaire