Rippon, S. J., Fyfe, R. M. and Brown, A. G. (2006). Beyond Villages and Open Fields: The Origins and Development of a Historic Landscape Characterised by Dispersed Settlement in South-West England. Medieval Archaeology 50. Vol 50, pp. 31-70. https://doi.org/10.5284/1071970. Cite this via datacite
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Beyond Villages and Open Fields: The Origins and Development of a Historic Landscape Characterised by Dispersed Settlement in South-West England | ||||||||
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the origins and development of a historic landscape characterised by dispersed settlement in south-west England | ||||||||
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Medieval Archaeology 50 | ||||||||
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Medieval Archaeology | ||||||||
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Nine palaeoenvironmental sequences are reported from central Devon and the edges of Exmoor. They suggest substantial clearance of woodland in lowland areas and the upland fringe by the Late Iron Age, and that the incorporation of this region into the Roman world had little impact on patterns of landscape exploitation. The region lay beyond the main area of Romanisation, and the fifth century saw little discernible change in management of the landscape. These palaeoenvironmental sequences suggest that around the seventh to eighth centuries, however, there was a significant change in the patterns of land-use, which, it is suggested, relates to the introduction of a regionally distinctive system of agriculture known as `convertible husbandry'. This may also have been the context for the creation of today's historic landscape of small hamlets and isolated farmsteads set within a near continuous fieldscape, replacing the late prehistoric/Romano-British/post-Roman landscape of small, enclosed settlements with only very localised evidence for field systems. This transformation appears to be roughly contemporary with, or even earlier than, the creation of nucleated villages in the `central province' of England, suggesting that the `great replanning' was one of several regionally distinctive trajectories of landscape change in the later-first millennium AD. | ||||||||
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