University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monographs

Much archaeological rescue work has recently taken place in the coastal area of Purbeck in Dorset, due to oil-field and other industrial development. The Purbeck project was initiated to see what could be added to knowledge of the area through modern methods of archaeological survey and through the analysis of historical sources. The papers in the collection look at various aspects of Purbeck history and archaeology from the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval periods to the eighteenth century. Includes