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The transformation of coastal wetlands: exploitation and management of marshland landscape...
James Rivington (Ed.)
A study of the human development of the coastal wetland landscape in Britain and north west Europe and how different cultural systems interacted with broadly similar environments. The area of study is the southern North Sea Basin including Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. The four major study areas within that are Romney Marsh (Kent), the Thames Estuary, and the Fenlands in UK, and the districts of North and South Holland and Zeeland in the western Netherlands. Other areas are cited where particularly relevant for comparison although the more scattered areas around the coasts of Wales and England are excluded due to the imbalance in levels of research. There is discussion of the formation of the coastal wetlands, including the role of changing sea level, climate and the weather -- along with the potential resources and methods of exploitation they afforded. The extensive settlement and utilization during the Roman period, patterns of resource exploitation (especially salt production) and agricultural use including drainage and reclamation are detailed. The extent of post-Roman flooding and settlement desertion is examined, providing a context for the subsequent recolonization of the marshes in the early medieval period. Continued enclosure and drainage during the twelfth to fourteenth centuries are described, followed by a consideration of some themes common to the medieval period as a whole, such as natural resource exploitation and who bore responsibility for undertaking reclamation.
2000
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