Rippon, S. J. (2002). Making the Most of a Bad Situation, Glastonbury Abbey, Mear and the Medieval Exploitation of Wetland Resources in the Somerset Levels. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13. Vol 13, pp. 133-138. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069505. Cite this via datacite

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Title:		 Making the Most of a Bad Situation, Glastonbury Abbey, Mear and the Medieval Exploitation of Wetland Resources in the Somerset Levels
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Subtitle:		 Glastonbury Abbey, Meare and the medieval exploitation of wetland resources in the Somerset Levels
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Issue:		 Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13
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Abstract:		 Meare, in the Somerset Levels, is famous for the Abbot of Glastonbury's 'Fish House' , and it is well known that it lay to the south of a large open lake, known as Meare Pool. The manor of Meare was centred on a small bedrock island that protrudes through the extensive wetlands of the Brue Valley immediately west of Glastonbury: this was about the lowest-lying and most poorlydrained part of the Somerset Levels, and a question that has to be asked is why on earth did anyone bother living there? A current programme of research at the University of Exeter is attempting to reconstruct the wider medieval landscape of Meare and its environs, in particular showing how highly valued wetland resources were in the medieval period. A strongly interdisciplinary approach is being used, taking advantage of Glastonbury's remarkably rich documentary archives (eg Musgrove 1999; 2001). In the past these have been extensively 'quarried' for the information they contain on socio-economic history, but they also include abundant, but previously neglected, references to landscape features - such as settlements, fields, mills, fisheries, roads, and canals (yes, artificial canals!). In this project an attempt has been made to actually locate where these features were and address the question: what did the medieval landscape on one of Glastonbury Abbey's manors actually look like?
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Author:		 Stephen J Rippon ORCID icon
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Other Person/Org:		 Damaris D Dodds (Abstract author)
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Year of Publication:		 2002
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Tenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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Created Date:		 09 Oct 2017