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Title:
Landscape Hist 17
Series:
Landscape History
Volume:
17
Publication Type:
Journal
Editor:
Della Hooke
Publisher:
Society for Landscape Studies
Year of Publication:
1995
Source:
BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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URI:
http://www.landscapestudies.com/Journal.html
Created Date:
25 Aug 2005
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Abstract
Marginality and the nature of later prehistoric upland settlement in the north of England
Robert Young
Trevor Simmonds
5 - 16
The article looks at the suggestion, first put forward by Colin Burgess, that there was substantial human abandonment of upland areas in later prehistory. It debates the key issues of the role of climate and climatic change, the nature of marginality and human responses to it in the Borders and upland regions generally in Britain, and alternatives to the desertion model put forward in some of the northern literature. The archaeological record for the Bronze Age to Iron Age/Romano-British periods in the area of northern Northumberland and the Scottish Borders region is considered in relation to some of the traditional approaches to understanding settlement pattern development.
Place-names and other evidence for Anglian settlement in south-east Scotland
Edwina V W Proudfoot
Christopher Aliaga-Kelly
17 - 26
Paper developed from a study of place-names relating to Edwina Proudfoot's work on the long-cist cemetery at Hallow Hill, Fife (Proudfoot and Aliaga-Kelly 1996) along with the study of place-name evidence for Old English-speaking, Anglian settlement in Scotland, in Christopher Aliaga-Kelly's thesis `The Anglo-Saxon occupation of south-east Scotland'. In treating the place-names as artefacts in their own right, no correlation was found between them and the very limited artefactual and structural evidence for Anglian settlement. The documentary evidence allowed some place-names to be seen in association with one another and even with possible estates or lordships. There was limited evidence for concentration of settlement by Old English speakers and later expansions or shifts of population. The meaning of some place-names was found to be informative and there were examples of British elements in surviving Anglian place-names.
Dispersed settlement in nucleated areas
Christopher Taylor
27 - 34
The paper examines a feature of later medieval settlement patterns in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire which was reported, but not fully discussed, in a previous work (Change and continuity: rural settlement in north-west Lincolnshire by P L Everson, C C Taylor & C J Dunn, London 1991). This feature is the sub-structure of dispersed settlements in a region where nucleated villages are the dominant form of medieval settlement. The evidence for this type of settlement pattern is summarised, and possible reasons for its origin are suggested.
Conceptions of cultural landscape change in upland North Wales: a case study of Llanbedr-y-Cennin and Caerhun pari...
Charles W J Withers
35 - 47
The paper examines the history of cultural landscape change in two rural parishes in upland North Wales between c.1560 and 1880 in the explanatory context of changes in settlement patterns and agrarian systems during the preceding period of the early- to mid-sixteenth century. The main aims of the paper are to provide a more detailed study of the cultural geography of rural settlement in these two parishes from the mid-sixteenth century than has hitherto been available, and to suggest that the conceptual and explanatory paradigms used (either the evolution or the stadial development of settlement and landscape history) should themselves be subject to scrutiny.
From dolines to dewponds: a study of water supplies on the Yorkshire Wolds
Colin Hayfield
P Wagner
49 - 64
The paper attempts to demonstrate how fundamental water supplies were to the development of the High Wolds landscape from prehistory to the present century, discussing several basic conundrums, such as how the more remote Wold-top farmsteads obtained a sufficient regular supply of water; the greatest distance which people would travel to carry back drinking water; when the first attempt was made to trap and store roof-water; the prevalence of draw-wells in Roman and later times; what people did when ponds failed or water-tables fell during dry spells; and what attempts were made to purify drinking water taken from ponds used by animals. The role of local water supplies in dictating not only where Woldsmen lived, but how and if they lived, is highlighted.
Salisbury Plain Training Area; (the management of an ancient landscape)
Graham Brown
65 - 76
The paper outlines the archaeological importance of the Salisbury Plain Training Area, which contains 41% of the remaining unimproved chalk downland in north-west Europe including 48.000 acres notified as Sites of Special Scientific Interest and 1,700 archaeological monuments, of which 551 are scheduled. The paper also shows how management plans have been formulated in an attempt to conserve this unique landscape.
