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Iron Age And Romano British Agriculture In The North Gloucestershire Severn Vale
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Book Synopsis Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in the North Gloucestershire Severn Vale by : Neil Holbrook
Download or read book Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in the North Gloucestershire Severn Vale written by Neil Holbrook and published by Cotswold Archaeological Trust. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two reports are published in this volume: Prehistoric and Early Historic Activity, Settlement and Burial at Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury: Excavations at Rudgeway Lane 2004-2005 (by Jonathan Hart and E.R. McSloy), and Romano-British Agriculture at the former St James's Railway Station, Cheltenham: Excavations in 2000-2001 (by Laurent Coleman and Martin Watts). Significant remains from Rudgeway Lane include two Middle Bronze Age parallel ditches (the remains of an enclosure, or possibly a long barrow), and a Middle Iron Age enclosure superseded by 1st century AD unenclosed settlement, that was in turn replaced by a 2nd to late 3rd-century AD enclosed rectilinear settlement featuring a roundhouse, a well, several burials and an associated trackway. Two 6th-century burials, one with grave goods, were later made within the abandoned farmstead. At the St James's site in Cheltenham, excavation revealed a field system that was used and developed throughout the Roman period, together with a number of pits and postholes, with two late 4th century AD burials.
Book Synopsis A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017) by : Tom Moore
Download or read book A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017) written by Tom Moore and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the origins and nature of one of the lesser-known, but perhaps most significant, Late Iron Age 'oppida' in Britain: Bagendon in Gloucestershire.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Gloucestershire by : Timothy Darvill
Download or read book Prehistoric Gloucestershire written by Timothy Darvill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.
Book Synopsis The Fields of Britannia by : Stephen Rippon
Download or read book The Fields of Britannia written by Stephen Rippon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.
Book Synopsis Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain by : David Bird
Download or read book Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain written by David Bird and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the ‘civilian’ part of Britannia that is based largely on other parts of the country. This book aims to redress the balance. The focus is particularly on Kent, Surrey and Sussex account is taken of information from neighbouring counties, particularly when the difficult subsoils affect the availability of evidence. An overview of the environment and a consideration of themes relevant to the South-East as a whole accompany 14 papers covering the topics of rural settlement in each county, crops, querns and millstones, animal exploitation, salt production, leatherworking, the working of bone and similar materials, the production of iron and iron objects, non-ferrous metalworking, pottery production and the supply of tile to Roman London. Agriculture and industry provides an up-to-date assessment of our knowledge of the southern hinterland of Roman London and an area that was particularly open to influences from the Continent.
Download or read book Clash of Cultures? written by Roger White and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater compared to the militarized frontier zone of the north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture took root early – in cities like Colchester, London ,and St Albans – and lingered late at cities like Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman villa culture. The west midlands region captures the transition between these two areas of the ‘military’ north and ‘civilized’ south. Where it differed, and why, are important questions in understanding the regional diversity of Roman Britain. They are addressed by this volume which details the archaeology of the Roman period for each of the modern counties of the region, written by local experts who are or have been responsible for the management and exploration of their respective counties. These are placed alongside more thematic takes on elements of Roman culture, including the Roman Army, pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the important transitional period of the fifth and sixth centuries. Each paper provides both a developed review of the existing state of knowledge and understanding of the key characteristics of the subject area and details a set of research objectives for the future, immediate and long-term, that will contribute to our evolving understanding of Roman Britain. This is the third volume in a series – The Making of the West Midlands – that explores the archaeology of the English west midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards.
Book Synopsis Severn Valley Ware Production at Newland Hopfields by : C. Jane Evans
Download or read book Severn Valley Ware Production at Newland Hopfields written by C. Jane Evans and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological report from the excavation of a Romano-British kiln site at North End Farm, Great Malvern in Worcestershire, in 1992 and 1994.
Book Synopsis Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British by : Stephen Trow
Download or read book Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British written by Stephen Trow and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excavations at Ditches in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds during the 1980s investigated a large late Iron Age enclosure which proved to contain a remarkably early Roman villa. Discoveries included a well-preserved cellar and a range of finds, including Gallo-Belgic wares, Iron Age coins, coin moulds, Venus figurines and brooches indicating high-status occupation in the late Iron Age and early Roman period. This volume not only includes a report on the excavations of 1984-5, but also additional work, including a new geophysical survey and reassessment of the finds. Alongside re-appraisal of much of the 1980s evidence, this analysis allows the earlier material to be compared with more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition contributing to debates over processes of 'Romanization', questions of social and political continuity and the nature of villa development in Britain."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Twenty-five Years of Archaeology in Gloucestershire by : Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Download or read book Twenty-five Years of Archaeology in Gloucestershire written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years is a long time in the study of prehistory and these papers, given at a conference in Cheltenham in 2004, seek to review the excavations, surveys, chance finds and serious investigations carried out over two and a half decades.
Book Synopsis Farming in the First Millennium AD by : P. J. Fowler
Download or read book Farming in the First Millennium AD written by P. J. Fowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis Iron Age Societies in the Severn-Cotswolds by : Tom Moore
Download or read book Iron Age Societies in the Severn-Cotswolds written by Tom Moore and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the following theme: an examination of the processes of change in Iron Age social organisation and identity on a regional scale using the Severn-Cotswolds, England, as a case study.
Book Synopsis Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, 1972-3 and 1988 by : Alistair Barclay
Download or read book Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, 1972-3 and 1988 written by Alistair Barclay and published by Oxford Archaeological Unit. This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on three seasons of excavation conducted in advance of gravel extraction in 1972, 1973 and 1988 at the Devil's Quoits circle-henge monument near Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire. While the stones have gone, evidence has been uncovered for the complete plan. The stratigraphy of the henge ditch (including analysis of sediments and soils) is described. Investigations in the interior uncovered very little pottery but struck flint and animal bone was found. The construction and significance of the monument is discussed. A gazetteer and review of local pre-Iron Age sites places it in its ancient context, while proposals for its preservation and partial reconstruction as a cultural amenity look to its future.
Book Synopsis Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire by : Matthew S. Hobson
Download or read book Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire written by Matthew S. Hobson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman villa at Lyde Green was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The results of the stratigraphic analysis are given here, along with specialist reports on the human remains, pottery (including thin sections), ceramic building material, small finds, coinage and iron-working waste.
Book Synopsis In Search of the Dark Ages by : Michael Wood
Download or read book In Search of the Dark Ages written by Michael Wood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.
Book Synopsis Iron Age Agriculture Reviewed by : Peter John Reynolds
Download or read book Iron Age Agriculture Reviewed written by Peter John Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Landscape of Roman Britain by : Ken R. Dark
Download or read book The Landscape of Roman Britain written by Ken R. Dark and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landscape of Roman Britain is the first book to combine the latest advances in the archaeology of the period with new scientific approaches to environmental reconstruction. It brings together information from excavated sites and archaeological survey data with that provided by the study of ancient plant and animal remains in order to produce a fuller picture of the society, economy and natural environment of the Romano-British countryside than has, until recently, been possible. Throughout, recent discoveries and established interpretations are discussed, and new analyses and reinterpretations are outlined, making this a fascinating and timely book. Written in an accessible style and clearly explaining each stage of the arguments employed, this book will be essential reading for both amateur and professional archaeologists of Roman and medieval Britain, and for students of British archaeology and landscape history.
Book Synopsis An Atlas of Roman Britain by : Barri Jones
Download or read book An Atlas of Roman Britain written by Barri Jones and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive atlas containing over 270 detailed and wide-ranging maps, figures, plans and site photographs on all aspects of Roman Britain.
