Brunning, R. A. (2007). A Millenium of Fishing Structures in Stert Flats, Bridgwater Bay. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 18. Vol 18, pp. 67-83. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069536. Cite this via datacite
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A Millenium of Fishing Structures in Stert Flats, Bridgwater Bay | ||||||||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 18 | ||||||||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | ||||||||
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67 - 83 | ||||||||
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Large numbers of wood and stone fish weirs are known to exist along the coast of Somerset but curiously little analytical work has been undertaken on them. As a first step towards answering some of the many research questions about these structures, a small sampling exercise was undertaken in the Stert Flats area of Bridgwater Bay. The objective was to characterise the wood species used in the weirs and obtain dating samples from differing structural types. The exercise was successful and suggests that there may be almost a thousand years of fishing structures present in the area, beginning in the late Saxon period, with four distinct types of weir in use. The types of Saxon and medieval weirs identified correspond very well to examples from Magor Pill, showing that weir development was consistent on both sides of the estuary. The late Saxon weirs are also similar to dated examples from Essex and Suffolk, suggesting a shared technological tradition across a large geographical area. An extension of this minimal sampling, characterising and dating exercise would no doubt provide evidence of further complexity but would also help to firmly establish structural typologies chronologically secured by scientific dating. | ||||||||
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09 Oct 2017 |
