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Author : Al Oswald,Stewart Ainsworth,Trevor Pearson,Paul Frodsham
Publisher : English Heritage
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021631
A detailed archaeological landscape survey which investigates the purpose, design and function of Iron Age hillforts in Northumberland National Park.
Author : Gary Lock,Ian Ralston
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789692273
The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) compiled a massive database on hillforts by a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork. This volume outlines the history of the project, offers preliminary assessments of the online digital Atlas and presents initial research studies using Atlas data.
Author : Andrew Payne,Mark Corney,Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848022218
The earthwork forts that crown many hills in Southern England are among the largest and most dramatic of the prehistoric features that still survive in our modern rural landscape. The Wessex Hillforts Survey collected wide-ranging data on hillfort interiors in a three-year partnership between the former Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage and Oxford University. These defended enclosures, occupied from the end of the Bronze Age to the last few centuries before the Roman conquest, have long attracted archaeological interest and their function remains central to study of the Iron Age. The communal effort and high degree of social organistation indicated by hillforts feeds debate about whether they were strongholds of Celtic chiefs, communal centres of population or temporary gathering places occupied seasonally or in times of unrest. Yet few have been extensively examined archaeologically. Using non-invasive methods, the survey enabled more elaborate distinctions to be made between different classes of hillforts than has hitherto been possible. The new data reveals not only the complexity of the archaeological record preserved inside hillforts, but also great variation in complexity among sites. Survey of the surrounding coutnryside revealed hillforts to be far from isolated features in the later prehistoric landscape. Many have other less visible, forms of enclosed settlement in close proximity. Others occupy significant meeting points of earlier linear ditch systems and some appear to overlie, or be located adjacent to, blocks of earlier prehistoric field systems.
Author : William O'Brien,James O’Driscoll
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916565
This is the first project to study hillforts in relation to warfare and conflict in Bronze Age Ireland. This project combines remote sensing and GIS-based landscape analysis with conventional archaeological survey to investigate ten prehistoric hillforts across southern Ireland.
Author : Dennis Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626104
Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe from the later Bronze Age. With such a range of variants represented, no single explanation of their function or social significance could satisfy all possible interpretations of their role. While they are conventionally viewed as defence settlements or regional centres controlled by a social elite, this role has been challenged in recent years, and instead hillforts are being considered primarily as expressions of social identity with strong ritual and cosmological associations. Current hillfort interpretations are in danger of reflecting contemporary social sensitivities more strongly than any recognizable Iron Age priorities, and the need for critical analysis of basic archaeological evidence is paramount. Critically reviewing the evidence of hillforts in Britain, in the wider context of Ireland and continental Europe, the volume focuses on their structural features, chronology, landscape context, and their social, economic and symbolic functions, and is well illustrated throughout with site plans, reconstruction drawings, and photographs. Harding reviews the changing perceptions of hillforts and the future prospects for hillfort research, highlighting aspects of contemporary investigation and interpretation.
Author : Dan Garner
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784914677
The Habitats and Hillforts of Cheshire’s Sandstone Ridge Landscape Partnership Project was focussed on six of Cheshire hillforts and their surrounding habitats and landscapes. It aimed to develop understanding of the chronology and role of the hillforts and encourage local interest and involvement in their maintenance.
Author : Dave Stewart,Miles Russell
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784917166
This volume sets out the results of a detailed programme of non-intrusive geophysical survey conducted across hillforts of Dorset (UK), generating detailed subsurface maps of archaeological features, in the hope of better resolving the phasing, form and internal structure of these iconic sites.
Author : W. J. Varley
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473356276
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Gary Lock
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803273136
Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) is the northernmost of a series of hillforts atop the Clwydian hills in Wales. Nine seasons of survey and excavation reveal details of Moel-y-Gaer’s ramparts, entrances and interior. Discussion situates the site within the later prehistoric settlement record for north-eastern Wales paying particular attention to hillforts.
Author : Sean Campbell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781445660035
Explores Gloucestershire's fascinating hill-forts.
Author : J.-P. Taavitsainen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Borgar
ISBN : IND:30000002137242
Author : Davide Delfino,Fernando Coimbra,Gonçalo P. C. Cruz,Daniela Cardoso
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789692556
This book presents 19 papers from the International Colloquium ‘FortMetalAges’ (Portugal, 2017); they discuss different interpretive ideas for defensive structures whose construction had necessitated large investment, present new case studies, and conduct comparative analysis between different regions and periods (Chalcolithic to Iron Age).
Author : Joshua Pollard
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064101424
This volume describes work on the Iron Age hillfort of Lodge Hill Camp, in Gwent, south-east Wales. Situated adjacent to the later Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon, the hillfort has, until recently, received little archaeological attention. Excavation was undertaken during the summer of 2000 within the interior of the hillfort, at its western entrance, and across the inner bank and ditch of the defences. An extended discussion is offered of Lodge Hills position within the regional Iron Age sequence, and of Roman and early Medieval reuse of hillforts in south Wales. The results of geophysical and earthwork survey at the hillfort of Llanmelin, near Chepstow, are also reported on. Contents: 1) Introduction (Joshua Pollard, Michael Hamilton & Neil Phillips); 2) Excavation Results (Joshua Pollard, Adrian Chadwick & Lesley McFadyen); 3) Artefactual Material Ironwork (Philip Macdonald); Metalworking slags (Tim Young); Prehistoric pottery (Rick Peterson, Joshua Pollard & Elaine Morris); Droitwich briquetage (Joshua Pollard & Elaine Morris); Roman pottery (Ray Howell & Joshua Pollard); Medieval pottery (Rick Peterson & Joshua Pollard); Brick and tile (Joshua Pollard); Fired clay (Joshua Pollard); Worked flint (Joshua Pollard); Other worked stone (Joshua Pollard) ]; 4) Environmental Evidence (Ruth Young); 5) Discussion: Lodge Hill Camp and the hillforts of Gwent (Joshua Pollard, Ray Howell, Adrian Chadwick & Lesley McFadyen); 7) Appendix 1. Llanmelin Hillfort, Caerwent: geophysical and earthwork survey (Daryl Williams).
Author : Anu Mänd,Marek Tamm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000076936
The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisation and colonisation on the north-east shore of the Baltic Sea in the late twelfth and the early thirteenth centuries. These radical changes have received increasing scholarly notice over the last few decades. However, less attention has been devoted to the interplay between the new and the old structures and actors in a longer perspective. This volume aims to study these interplays and explores the history of Livonia by concentrating on various actors and networks from the late twelfth to the seventeenth century. But, on a deeper level, the goal is more ambitious: to investigate the foundation of an increasingly complex and heterogeneous society on the medieval and early modern Baltic frontier – ‘the making of Livonia’.
Author : James Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040045283