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Landscape Hist 14
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Landscape Hist 14
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Series:
Landscape History
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Volume:
14
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Journal
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Year of Publication:
1992
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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Medieval rural settlement: changing perceptions
Christopher C Taylor
5 - 17
Medieval landscapes and settlements can be approached in four different ways: through documents, archaeology, philology, and spatial studies. The nature and history of all four is reviewed. Five sites or localities (Knaptoft, Whiteparish, Coombe Keynes, Faxton and Sawston) are examined in detail. Past interpretations are criticised and new ones proposed. It is maintained that these new interpretations are the result of changing perceptions and that in time they too will be modified.
Dating villages: theory and practice
Brian K Roberts
19 - 30
Many of the villages in northern England have regular plans and the need to date these underlies this paper. The importance of devastation and population numbers as relevant factors are explored in the context of the midlands and the north. It is argued that the oft-observed regularity of northern village plans is the product of devastation in a region of very low population levels. The possible date of the devastation is uncertain and it is possible that there was more than one phase of the foundation of villages with regular plans. Investigations into the morphological subtleties of villages might reveal this.
A cultural-ecological model of agrarian colonisation in upland Wales
Colin Thomas
37 - 50
This paper presents a schematic outline of the series of sequential adaptations that were made to the initial kindred-based systems of a hypothetical farm unit in Snowdonia c. AD 1250 to 1600. It concentrates on the quantified analysis of field name elements signifying functional importance. Key themes in the work are geographical issues of location and site along with questions concerning the nature of homesteads, fields and land use. The assumptions of the model are set out; it is tested and interpreted.
Fish, fowl and fen: landscape and economy on seventeenth-century Martin Mere
Audrey Coney
55 - 64
Martin Mere, near Ormskirk in Lancashire, was drained in the late seventeenth century. Resulting boundary disputes led to the creation of a large deposit of maps and documents. They present a picture of the ordered exploitation of the environment with fisheries, turbaries, and pastures along with the opportunities for fowling and gathering material for thatching. Some reference is made to the use of the area in other times, notably the prehistoric and medieval periods.
William George Hoskins, landscape historian (1908 -- 1992)
Roy Millward
65 - 70
An appreciation of the life of W G Hoskins, author of The Making of the English Landscape and numerous other works which laid the foundations of landscape history and archaeology.