
Industry and the Making of a Rural Landscape
Iron and pottery production at Churchills Farm, Hemyock, Devon
Chris Smart(Editor)
BAR Publishing
Published on 30. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-4073-1626-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents the results of excavation and analysis of technological remains from the Devon village of Hemyock, on the north-west side of the Blackdown Hills. The first major subject covered is an examination of early medieval iron technology including the largest group of C14-dated furnaces of the late 9th to early 10th centuries in Britain, which has afforded a re-examination and modelling of all other dated examples in the UK, and a review of technological change in iron production. The second major element to this volume is the study of a later major pottery production centre, dated c. 1500-1550, using a combination of microscopic and macroscopic petrology, ICP-MS and QEMSCAN in novel analysis of over 50,000 sherds. The final chapter considers evidence for the contemporary landscape context of and historical framework behind these industries, the relationship with extraction sites, and the wider environmental impacts that they had.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
1016 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4073-1626-0 (9781407316260)
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