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Author : M. D. Leah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (594 download)
Download or read book The Wetlands of Shropshire and Staffordshire written by M. D. Leah and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark D. Leah
Publisher : Oxford Archaeological Unit
ISBN 13 : 9781862200234
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Wetlands of Shropshire and Staffordshire written by Mark D. Leah and published by Oxford Archaeological Unit. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the North West is thought to contain far more peat, wetland archaeology has long been dominated by Eastern England Sites. However, the 1984 discovery of the Lindow Man drew attention to the area's resources, which were degrading due to drainage, peat deflation, forestry, refuse disposal, quarrying and road constuction.
Author : Derek Hurst
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 1785704125
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Westward on the High-Hilled Plains written by Derek Hurst and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence, for instance in the middle Saxon period (viz. the kingdom of Mercia), or, much later, with rural south Shropshire being the birthplace of the Industrial rRevolution. Yet it is a region rich in natural mineral resources, set amidst readily productive farmland, and with major rivers, such as the Severn, facilitating transportation. The scale of its later prehistoric monuments, notably the hillforts, proclaims the centralisation of some functions, whether for security, exchange or emulation, while society supported the production and widespread distribution of specialised craft goods. Finally, towards the close of prehistory, localised kingdoms can be seen to emerge into view. In the course of reviewing the evidence for later prehistory from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Iron Age, the papers presented here adopt a variety of approaches, being either regional, county-wide, or thematic (eg. by site type, or artefactual typology), and they also encompass the wider landscape as reconstructed from environmental evidence. This is the second 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. These volumes, based on a series of West Midlands Research Framework seminars, aim to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain.
Author : Roger White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785709259
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
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.
Author : Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946633
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain written by Richard W. Hoyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. In the late middle ages it was hard to see that English agriculture was so very different from that of the continent, but by 1750 levels of agricultural productivity in Britain were well ahead of those general in northern Europe. The country had become much more urban and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture had fallen. Customary modes of behaviour, whilst often bitterly defended, had largely been swept away. Contemporaries were quite clear that a process of improvement had taken place which had seen agriculture reshaped and made much more productive. Exactly what that process was has remained surprisingly obscure. This volume addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Contributors present a variety of cases of how improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape, which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons. Disputes between tenants and landlords, and between neighbouring landlords, over improvement meant that new economic and social identities were forged in the battle between innovation and tradition. The volume also includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers and a case study of what can happen when radical improvement failed. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, but will also provide a useful context for anybody studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.
Author : MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
ISBN 13 : 6061610378
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book MYTH, SYMBOL, AND RITUAL: ELUCIDATORY PATHS TO THE FANTASTIC UNREALITY written by MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA and published by Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume insists on the policies derived from the social ideas generated by myths, the updating of myths as an arsenal of social pedagogy, on the ethnic condition of the relevance of myths, but also on the resumption by mass media of the pejorative sense of the myth. This volume is part of the scientific series “Mythology and Folklore”.
Author : Keith Ray
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686190
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Offa's Dyke written by Keith Ray and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's largest linear monument was built, and in recent years, the views of those who have studied the Dyke have diverged even as to such basic questions as its physical extent and date of construction. This book provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Offa's Dyke arising from over a decade of study and of conservation practice by its two authors. It also provides a new appreciation of the specifically Mercian and English political context of its construction. The authors first summarise what is known about the Dyke from archaeology and history and review the debates surrounding its form and purpose. They then set out a systematic approach to understanding the design and construction of the massive linear bank and ditch that has come to stand proxy for the Anglo-Welsh border. What can currently be deduced about the build qualities of the Dyke are then summarised from the authors' recent (and newly intricate) study of details of its localised form and construction and its landscape setting. The authors meanwhile also explain Offa's Dyke as an instrument of late 8th-century Mercian statecraft and the imperial ambitions of Offa himself.
Author : Tim Malim
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789696127
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Old Oswestry Hillfort and its Landscape: Ancient Past, Uncertain Future written by Tim Malim and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, organised into 14 well-crafted chapters, charts the archaeology, folklore, heritage and landscape development of one of England's most enigmatic monuments, Old Oswestry Hillfort, from the Iron Age, through its inclusion as part of an early medieval boundary between England and Wales, to its role during World War I.
Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1842171097
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The Neolithic of the Irish Sea written by Vicki Cummings and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, however, has demonstrated that the British and Irish Neolithics were in many ways different, with distinct indigenous patterns of activity and social practices. The recent emphasis on regional studies has further produced evidence for parallel yet different processes of cultural change taking place throughout the British Isles as a whole. This volume brings together some of these regional perspectives and compares them across the Irish Sea area. The authors consider new ways to explain regional patterning in the use of material objects and relate them to past practices and social strategies. Were there practices that were shared across the Irish Sea area linking different styles of monuments and material culture, or were the media intrinsic to the message? The volume is based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002.
Author : Gary Lock
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910716
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Excavations at King's Low and Queen's Low written by Gary Lock and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two barrows in the parish of Tixall, north of Stafford, were excavated between 1986-1994. The results are important because little excavation of round barrows has been carried out in this area of North Staffordshire and these add considerably to the local corpus of knowledge concerning Early Bronze Age burial practices.
Author : Nigel J. Tringham
Publisher : Victoria County History
ISBN 13 : 9781904356417
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (564 download)
Download or read book A History of the County of Stafford written by Nigel J. Tringham and published by Victoria County History. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and authoritative history of north-west Staffordshire, including Keele, Trentham and Audley. Covering the hilly north-west part of the county from the Cheshire border to the valley of the river Trent south of Newcastle-under-Lyme, this volume treats parishes that lie mostly on the North Staffordshire coalfield and where both coal and ironstone mining and iron-making became important, especially in the nineteenth century. A rich archive has been used to illustrate the origins of this industrial activity in the Middle Ages, when the area was characterised by scattered settlements, with an important manorial complex and a grand fourteenth-century church at Audley, a hunting lodge for the Stafford lords at Madeley, a small borough at Betley, and at Keele and Trentham religioushouses which became landed estates with mansion houses after the Dissolution. In the nineteenth century Trentham gained fame for its spectacular gardens created by the immensely rich dukes of Sutherland, and Keele rose to prominence in 1950 as the site of Britain's first campus university. After coalmining ceased in the twentieth century several villages and mining hamlets acquired large housing estates, which in Trentham parish were absorbed into Stoke-on-Trent. Nigel Tringham is a Senior Lecturer in History at Keele University, with special responsibility for researching and writing the volumes of the Staffordshire Victoria County History.
Author : Shelagh Norton
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789698642
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Assessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts written by Shelagh Norton and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses marsh-forts as a separate phenomenon within Iron Age society through an understanding of their landscape context and palaeoenvironmental development. These substantial monuments appear to have been deliberately constructed to control areas of marginal wetland and may have played an important role in the ritual landscape.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686271
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Beacons in the Landscape written by Ian Brown and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them. Were they recognised as being something special by those who created them or is the 'hillfort' purely an archaeologists' 'construct'? How were they constructed, who lived in them and to what uses were they put? This book, which is richly illustrated with photography of sites throughout England and Wales, addresses these and many other questions. After discussing the difficult issue of definition and the great excavations on which our knowledge is based, Ian Brown investigates in turn hillforts' origins, their architecture, and the role they played in Iron Age society. He also discusses the latest theories about their location, social significance and chronology. The book provides a valuable synthesis of the rich vein of research carried out in Britain on hillforts over the last thirty years. Hillforts' great variability poses many problems, and this book should help guide both the specialist and non-specialist alike though the complex literature. Furthermore, it has an important conservation objective. Land use in the modern era has not been kind to these monuments, with a significant number either disfigured or lost. Public consciousness of their importance needs raising if their management is to be improved and their future assured.
Author : Mark D. Leah
Publisher : Oxford Archaeological Unit
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Wetlands of Cheshire written by Mark D. Leah and published by Oxford Archaeological Unit. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a completely new survey of the county's wetland archaeology and changing environment. The study brings together information from all relevant sources, to build up a picture of the landscape and man's indelible traces. Following introductory chapters concerning methodology and background, each chapter describes the mosses of discrete areas of the county. These are followed by a synthesis of the archaeological and palaeoecological data from the Mesolithic to the post-medieval period and comprehensive site gazetteers.
Author : John Halstead
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bronze Age Settlement in the Welsh Marches written by John Halstead and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological evidence for Bronze Age (c,2500-750 BC) settlement in the Welsh Marches is limited and patchy with the focus of attention traditionally set on monuments and graves of the period. Despite this, John Halstead re-examines data from the Sites and Monuments Record relating to domestic settlement with a view to providing a better understanding of the nature and form of settlement locales and other activities during the period and assessing questions of settlement continuity, discontinuity and dislocation. Making inferences from site specific data and plotting these on maps of the area, he finds evidence for some degree of continuity in settlement locales and environments, perhaps with some residential mobility within these.
Author : Tony Brown
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782972803
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book The Environment and Aggregate-Related Archaeology written by Tony Brown and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a synthetic review of the background and archaeology that has emerged through archaeological interventions associated with the quarrying of sand, gravel, and rock for aggregates. The book covers all periods from the Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval, and is organized on a regional basis. The review, which also contains as yet unpublished data, shows how the variety and preservation of archaeology can greatly expand our understanding of the relationships of humans to their changing environments.
Author : R. H. White
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910740
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997 written by R. H. White and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to intensive geophysical survey. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker 1950s-1980s.
