Fyfield and Overton Project, 1959-1998
Peter Fowler, 2000. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000336. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000336
- How to cite using this DOI
Introduction
The Fyfield and Overton Down Project archive is the result of a study of two contiguous parishes on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, England. The study used a combination of methods to elucidate how and when the landscape came by its appearance. A large data archive has been massed much of which exists in digital form and this digital material is being curated and presented for downloading by the Archaeology Data Service.
The digital archive serves two purposes:
- To support the monograph Landscape Plotted and Pieced: Landscape History and Local Archaeology in Fyfield and Overton, Wiltshire by Peter Fowler (published in 2000 by The Society of Antiquaries of London, distributed by Oxbow Books,
the popular book The Land of Lettice Sweetapple. An English Countryside Explored, by P. Fowler and I. Blackwell, 1998, published by Tempus, Stroud
and the four reports
- Excavation within a later prehistoric field system on Overton Down, West Overton, Wilts: land-use over 4,000 years
- Excavation of a Settlement of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries AD on Overton Down, West Overton, Wilts
- Excavation of the Medieval Settlement of 'Raddun', Wroughton Mead, Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, Wilts
- Seven Small Excavations on Fyfield and Overton Downs, with summaries of eighteen other excavations in and near Fyfield and West Overton Parishes, Wiltshire
- To offer an insight into the intellectual processes involved in the execution of a large and complex project by offering essentially everything from jotted down thoughts to full site reports.
The archive consists of 100 Fyfod Working Papers (FWPs) each of which consists of from one to over 40 word processed documents. Each file making up the Fyfod Working Papers may be downloaded in a variety of file formats.
