Johnston, R. (2005). Pattern without a plan:. Oxford J Archaeol 24 (1). Vol 24(1), pp. 1-21.

Title: Pattern without a plan:
Subtitle: rethinking the Bronze Age coaxial field systems on Dartmoor, south-west England
Issue: Oxford J Archaeol 24 (1)
Series: Oxford Journal of Archaeology
Volume: 24 (1)
Page Start/End: 1 - 21
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Abstract: The coaxial field systems on Dartmoor are widely interpreted as the result of a relatively rapid period of planned land division during the middle centuries of the second millennium BC. The article seeks to challenge this notion of a `planned landscape'. Using examples from southern (Shaugh Moor) and north-eastern (Kestor and Shovel Down) Dartmoor, it is demonstrated that the boundaries materialized existing structures in the landscape which had emerged through patterns of dwelling and long histories of tenure. In seeking to present a new narrative for the enclosure of the Dartmoor landscape, it is argued that tenure was articulated at a local level through the relationship between occupancy and ancestral ties to the land, and that land division was only possible because the forms of tenure and perceptions of landscape were already in place. The author argues that coaxial pattern emerged in a reflexive tradition of boundary construction rather than as part of a transformative plan or a conscious strategy to reorganize and enclose the moor.
Author: Robert Johnston
Year of Publication: 2005
Subjects / Periods:
Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject)
Field Systems (Auto Detected Subject)
Boundary (Auto Detected Subject)
Middle Centuries Of The Second Millennium Bc (Auto Detected Temporal)
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URI: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/24/1
Created Date: 24 Aug 2005