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The 19 papers comprise: G P Askew, R W Payton, & R S Shiel (5-33), Upland soils and land clearance in Britain during the 2nd millennium BC [factors leading to soil acidification and peat spread]; M L Parry (35-49), Upland settlement and climatic change: the medieval evidence [special reference to SE Scottish evidence]; Local studies - C R Hart (51-116), [four papers on fieldwork results - Aleck Low, Gardoms Edge, and Stanton Moor in Derbys, and Shap in Cumbria]; Alan King (117-34), Prehistoric settlement and land use in Craven, N Yorks [fully mixed economy represented by dense cover of monuments from Neo cairns to 'Celtic' fields]; T C Laurie (135-62), Early land division and settlement in Swaledale (etc) [parallel reave systems, not quite like Dartmoor's, and other monuments not described before]; D Coggins (163-75), Settlement and farming in Upper Teesdale [excavations, fieldwork and pollen analyses]. Regional Studies - G Jobey (177-94), The unenclosed settlements of Tyne-Forth: a summary [many new discoveries of round houses on N and E Cheviots, often with fields and cairnfields]; Colin Burgess (195-229), Population, climate, and upland settlement [population collapse c 1300-1000BC accompanied by slump in metal quality; possible Continental connexions suggest plague(s) from East]; S P Halliday (231-51), Unenclosed upland settlement in the E and SE of Scotland [problems of location and function of platform settlements, Lanarks and Peebles; diverse evidence N of Forth; socio-economic development implied by ring ditch houses of 550 bc onwards]; R J Mercer (253-72), Second millennium BC settlement in northern Scotland [Caithness-Sutherland survey, 2000+ sites and their agricultural or funerary significance; burnt mounds, platform settlements, change at c 1000 bc to great round houses]; Christopher Smith (273-83), Some evidence of early upland settlement from Wales [fields, enclosures, cairnfields, Ty Mawr settlement]; C S Briggs (285-316), Problems of the early agricultural landscape in upland Wales . . . Brecon Beacons [more rigorous work needed before 'transhumance' explanations are acceptable for prehistoric and medieval remains in Nant Car]; J Manley (317-49), Fields, cairns, and enclosures on Ffridd Brynhelen, Clwyd [?2nd millennium BC, but age, contemporaneity and survival all unclear as is 'transhumance' as explanation]; C S Briggs (351-63), Some problems of survey and study in prehistoric Ireland: highland and lowland distributions in Central Ulster, c 3600-1800 bc [examination of antiquarian records and museum resources for megalithic tombs, single graves, and stone axes; major clearance threshold c 2000 bc? and intensive EBA settlement]; J Briard & J P Nicolardot (365-83), [La Grosse Roche, Brittany: LBA pottery from a Dartmoor-type stone hut]; A Fleming (377-83), Upland settlement in Britain: the 2nd millennium BC and after [closing statement]. |
