Iron Age And Romano British Agriculture In The North Gloucestershire Severn Vale

Author : Neil Holbrook,Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher : Cotswold Archaeological Trust
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015075672322

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Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in the North Gloucestershire Severn Vale by Neil Holbrook,Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Pdf

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Bronze Age parallel ditches (the remains of an enclosure, or possibly a long barrow), and a Middle Iron Age enclosure superseded by 1st century AD unenclosed settlement, that was in turn replaced by a 2nd to late 3rd-century AD enclosed rectilinear settlement featuring a roundhouse, a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.

Author : Tom Moore
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789695359

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A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017) by Tom Moore Pdf

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.

Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781445619941

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Prehistoric Gloucestershire by Timothy Darvill Pdf

This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.

Author : Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart,Ben Pears
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191019517

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The Fields of Britannia by Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart,Ben Pears Pdf

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.

Author : David Bird
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785703225

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Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain by David Bird Pdf

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.

Author : Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,Cotswold Archaeology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069155128

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Twenty-five Years of Archaeology in Gloucestershire by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,Cotswold Archaeology Pdf

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.

Author : Roger White,Mike Hodder
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785709258

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Clash of Cultures? by Roger White,Mike Hodder Pdf

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 : Stephen Trow,Simon James,Thomas Hugh Moore
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079280866

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Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British by Stephen Trow,Simon James,Thomas Hugh Moore Pdf

"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.

Author : P. J. Fowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521813646

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Farming in the First Millennium AD by P. J. Fowler Pdf

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Author : Tom Moore,Thomas Hugh Moore
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069127390

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Iron Age Societies in the Severn-Cotswolds by Tom Moore,Thomas Hugh Moore Pdf

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.

Author : C. Jane Evans,Laurence Richard Jones,Peter Ellis
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052474973

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Severn Valley Ware Production at Newland Hopfields by C. Jane Evans,Laurence Richard Jones,Peter Ellis Pdf

An archaeological report from the excavation of a Romano-British kiln site at North End Farm, Great Malvern in Worcestershire, in 1992 and 1994.

Author : Alistair Barclay,Margaret Gray,George Lambrick
Publisher : Oxford Archaeological Unit
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0947816844

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Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, 1972-3 and 1988 by Alistair Barclay,Margaret Gray,George Lambrick Pdf

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.

Author : Peter John Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0951062107

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Iron Age Agriculture Reviewed by Peter John Reynolds Pdf

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448141517

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In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood Pdf

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.

Author : Ken R. Dark,Petra Dark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041018709

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The Landscape of Roman Britain by Ken R. Dark,Petra Dark Pdf

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.