Allen, J. R L. (1996). The Seabank on the Wentlooge Level, Gwent, Date of the Set-Back from Documentary and Pottery Evidence. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 7. Vol 7.
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The Seabank on the Wentlooge Level, Gwent, Date of the Set-Back from Documentary and Pottery Evidence | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 7 | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | ||
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A rich variety of historic landscapes have evolved following the enclosure (land-claim) at various times of tidal marshes on the margins of the inner Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary (eg Aston and Iles 1986; Allen and Fulford 1986; Rippon 1996). Other than being flat and close to sea level, these settled and farmed landscapes today bear little or no resemblance to the natural environments which they replaced; in particular, the evidence for networks of tidal creeks that dissected the marshes has largely or wholly disappeared. Although defining, upstanding monuments of such historic landscapes, the seabanks and outfall works to be found in the region have been generally overlooked and left unrecorded as archaeological features, and are less well known than their critical role demands. The dating of many of these features is uncertain, especially in the case of the older examples, and is particularly difficult in the many instances where the repositioning of the original defence further inland (set-back) was enforced by coastalerosion. The lowland coastal zone has never been stable and the need to understand its character and functioning better is being emphasised by global climate change. The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence for, and dating of, set-back on the Wentlooge Level, the southwestern portion of the Gwent Levels, on the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary | ||
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1996 | ||
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