The fields of Britannia : continuity and change in the late Roman and early medieval landscape /

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Author / Creator:	Rippon, Stephen, 1968- author
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	xix, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Land settlement patterns -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500. Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain. Antiquities. Classical antiquities. Land settlement patterns. Landscape archaeology. Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. Great Britain -- History -- To 1066. Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman. Great Britain -- Antiquities. Great Britain. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10392409

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Other authors / contributors:	Smart, Chris (Archaeologist), author. Pears, Ben, author.
ISBN:	9780199645824 0199645825
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.0What 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.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Appendices
List of Abbreviations
Note on Period and Other Terminology
Presentational Conventions
1. Fields of Britannia: A Roman Legacy in the British Countryside
2. A Regional Approach to Studying Landscape
3. A Landscape Approach to the Roman-Medieval Transition
4. The South East
5. East Anglia
6. The Central Zone
7. The South West
8. The Western Lowlands
9. The North East Lowlands
10. The Northern Uplands
11. Upland and Lowland Wales
12. Discussion and Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

The fields of Britannia : continuity and change in the late Roman and early medieval landscape /

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