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Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781445619941
This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.
Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028783739
Author : Martin Watts
Publisher : Cotswold Archaeological Trust
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131981529
Two reports are published in this volume: excavations in 2003 at Blenheim Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh (by Jonathan Hart and Mary Alexander) and excavations in 2004 at 21 Church Road, Bishop's Cleeve (by Kate Cullen and Annette Hancocks). Significant remains recorded at Moreton-in-Marsh include a Middle Bronze Age settlement of four post-built circular structures partly enclosed by a segmented ditch, and a series of medieval fields and paddocks with a possible sheepcote structure. A Middle Palaeolithic handaxe was also recovered. The Iron Age and medieval remains recorded at Bishop's Cleeve add to our understanding of past settlement in and around the village, where extensive development has resulted in a number of significant excavations in recent years.
Author : Alan Thomas,Neil Holbrook,Clifford Bateman
Publisher : Cotswold Archaeological Trust
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063172269
Excavation in advance of a link road at Hucclecote in Gloucestershire revealed a series of alluvial deposits and occupation evidence from the Middle Bronze Age through to medieval period. The results of the excavation, radiocarbon dates, finds and biological evidence are contained within this report. Notable discoveries include 3 or 4 Middle Bronze Age cremation burials, 12 inhumations from the Late Iron Age through to 2nd century AD, early 2nd-century ditched enclosures which later became part of the medieval field system.
Author : David Verey,Alan Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300097336
Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.
Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521551323
This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.
Author : Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : WISC:89011452794
Author : Robin Jackson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782979951
Archaeological investigations at Huntsman’s Quarry, Kemerton, south Worcestershire during 1995-6 recorded significant Late Bronze Age occupation areas and field systems spreading across more than 8 hectares. Limited evidence for Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Beaker activity was also recovered together with an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch. Waterholes and associated round-houses, structures and pits were set within landscape of fields and droveways radiocarbon dated to the 12th–11th centuries cal BC. Elements of this field system probably predated the settlement. Substantial artifactual and ecofactual assemblages were recovered from the upper fills of the waterholes and larger pits . The settlement had a predominantly pastoral economy supported by some textile and bronze production. Ceramics included a notable proportion of non-local fabrics demonstrating that the local population enjoyed a wide range of regional contacts. Wider ranging, national exchange networks were also indicated by the presence of shale objects as well as the supply of bronze for metalworking, perhaps indicative of a site of some social status. Together the evidence indicates a small settlement within which occupation of individual areas was short-lived with the focus of the settlement shifting on a regular basis. It is proposed that this occurred on a generational basis, with each generation setting up a new ‘homestead’ with an associated waterhole. The settlement can be compared favorably to those known along the Thames Valley but until now not recognized in this part of the country. Cropmark evidence and limited other investigations indicate that the fields and droveways recorded represent a small fragment of a widespread system of boundaries established across the gravel terraces lying between Bredon Hill and the Carrant Brook. This managed and organized landscape appears to have been established for the maintenance of an economy primarily based on relatively intensive livestock farming; the trackways facilitating seasonal movement of stock between meadows alongside the Carrant Brook, the adjacent terraces and the higher land on Bredon Hill.
Author : Tom Moore
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789695359
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 : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419925
Highlights the achievements of prehistoric people in Britain and Ireland over a 5,000 year period.
Author : David Morgan Evans,Peter Salway,David Thackray
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0851156711
The National Trust owns approximately 40,000 archaeological sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and in 1995 (its centenary year) the Trust, in close co-operation with the Society of Antiquaries, held a conference designed to highlight the important part archaeology now plays in the management of its properties. Historic houses, so long identified as the main interest of the National Trust, were touched on only in so far as they offer an opportunity or provide the context for archaeological research.
Author : Matthew S. Hobson,Richard Newman
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803270470
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.
Author : Timothy Darvill,Julian Thomas
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785701535
A digital reprint which makes available again the first publication of the Neolithic Studies Group, containing papers given to a special colloquium on the `structures' of Neolithic Europe. Contributions include: Neolithic houses in mainland Britain and Ireland - a skeptical view (Julian Thomas); Houses in context: Building as process (Alasdair Whitlle); A Central European Perspective (Jonathon Last); Neolithic houses in Ireland (Eoin Grogan); Neolithic buildings in Scotland (Gordon Barclay); Neolithic buildings in England, Wales and the Isle of Man (Tim Darvill); Mesolithic or later houses at Bowmans Farm, Romsey Extra, Hampshire (Francis Green); Ballygalley houses, co.Antrim (Derek Simpson); Later Neolthic Structires at Trelystan, Powys (Alex Gibson); Life, times and works of House 59, Tell Ovcharovo, Bulgaria (Douglass Bailey); Structure ans ritual in Neolithic houses (Peter Topping); Architecture and Cosmology in the Balinese house: life is not that simple (Colin Richards); Houses in the Neolithic imagination: an Amazonian Example (Christine Hugh-Jones).
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909686274
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0719018757