The Fields of Britannia : Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape.
Rippon, Stephen.
The Fields of Britannia : Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (472 pages)
Cover -- The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter1 -- Chapter2 -- Chapter3 -- Chapter4 -- Chapter5 -- Chapter6 -- Chapter7 -- Chapter8 -- Chapter9 -- Chapter10 -- Chapter11 -- Chapter12 -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Period and Other Terminology -- Presentational Conventions -- 1: Fields of Britannia -- Britain´s Green and Pleasant Land -- Perspectives on an Age of Transition -- The End of Roman Britain -- A `Late Antique´ Landscape? Native Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Lowland Britain -- The Fields of Britannia -- 2: A Regional Approach to Studying Landscape -- Landscape Character in Roman Britain -- Landscape Character in the Early Medieval Period -- The Earliest Medieval Period (Fifth to Mid-Seventh Centuries) -- The `Long Eighth Century´ (Late Seventh to Mid-Ninth Century) -- The Mid-Ninth to the Mid-Eleventh Centuries -- Mapping the Regions and Pays of First-Millenium ad Britain -- Regions -- Pays -- The Fields of Britannia Regions of Late Roman and Early Medieval Britain -- South East England -- The Central Zone -- East Anglia -- The South West -- Western Lowlands -- North East Lowlands -- Northern Uplands -- Lowland Wales -- Upland Wales -- 3: A Landscape Approach to the Roman-Medieval Transition -- Reconstructing Patterns of Land-Use -- Palaeoenvironmental Sequences -- Palaeoeconomic Data -- Methodological Considerations -- Animal Husbandry -- Cereal Cultivation -- Discussion -- The Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- Buried and Relict Landscapes -- Romano-British Field Systems Preserved Within the Historic Landscape of Today -- The Fieldscape of Early Medieval Britain -- The Earliest Medieval Period (the `Early and Middle Saxon Period´). The Long Eighth Century (`Middle Saxon Period´) and the Origins of Open Fields -- The Fields of Britannia Methodology -- A Note on Period Terminology -- Continuity and Discontinuity -- Changing Paradigms -- Continuity and Discontinuity of Different Landscape Components -- Modelling Landscape Change -- Discussion -- 4: The South East -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Brede, Pett, and Rye Levels: The Landward Edge of Romney Marsh -- The Weald -- The Weald Margin -- The South Downs -- The Hampshire Basin -- The Lower Thames Terraces -- The South Essex London Clay -- The Essex Boulder Clay Plateau -- Discussion: Land-Use Across the South East Region -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Coaxial Landscape of Southern Essex -- The Regularly Arranged Landscapes of Southern Essex: Discussion -- The Chalk Downlands -- Bagshot Heaths -- The Weald and Weald Margin -- Summary -- 5: East Anglia -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The East Anglian Boulder Clay Plateau -- Breckland -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Boulder Clay Plateau -- Breckland -- Discussion -- 6: The Central Zone -- Introduction -- Environment and Land Use -- The Upper Thames Valley -- Great Ouse Valley and Great Ouse Clay Vale -- The Nene Valley -- West Leicestershire Heaths and Clays -- Holderness -- The Yorkshire Wolds -- Summary -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Vale of Taunton Deane -- The Central Somerset Lowlands -- The Jurassic Limestone Hills -- The Vale of Gloucester -- The Upper Thames Valley -- East Midlands Clayland Pays -- Sherwood Forest and the Bunter Sandstones -- The Vale of Pickering -- Summary -- 7: The South West -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Granite Uplands in Cornwall -- Lowland Cornwall -- Dartmoor -- Lowland Devon -- Exmoor -- Blackdown Hills. Discussion -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- Red Devon -- The Blackdown Hills -- Lowland Cornwall -- West Penwith -- Discussion -- 8: The Western Lowlands -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Hills and Vales of Monmouthshire -- The Worcester Plain -- The Arden -- The Middle Severn Valley -- The Upper Severn Plain -- The Upper Trent Valley -- The Cheshire Hills -- The Merseyside and Lancashire Plain -- The Western Pennine Foothills -- Discussion -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Worcester Plain -- Vale of Evesham -- The Middle Avon Valley -- Arden -- Discussion -- 9: The North East Lowlands -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The North York Moors -- Tees, Tyne, and Wear Valleys -- Discussion -- The Legacy of the Late Romano-British Field Systems Landscape -- The Vale of York -- Discussion -- 10: The Northern Uplands -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Peak District -- The Pennines -- The Forest of Bowland -- The Cumbrian Uplands -- The Lake District -- The Barrow Peninsula -- The North Cumbrian Lowlands -- Weardale -- Discussion -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- Discussion -- 11: Upland and Lowland Wales -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use of the Lowlands of South Wales -- Environment and Land-Use of Upland Wales -- The Lleyn Peninsula -- Snowdonia -- The Cambrian Mountains -- The Coastal Lowlands of Cardigan Bay -- The Pembrokeshire Hills -- The Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons -- Discussion -- 12: Discussion and Conclusions -- New Light on an Old Problem -- Patterns of Land-Use in First Millenium ad Britain -- The Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- Potential Continuity in the Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- The Date of Discontinuity -- The Origins of Open Fields -- Understanding Excavations -- Conclusions -- Deconstructing `Continuity´. Towards a Model for Understanding Regional Variation in Landscape Character -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside.
9780191019517
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman.
Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
Land settlement patterns -- Great Britain -- History.
Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain.
Electronic books.
DA530 DA90
936.1
The Fields of Britannia : Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (472 pages)
Cover -- The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter1 -- Chapter2 -- Chapter3 -- Chapter4 -- Chapter5 -- Chapter6 -- Chapter7 -- Chapter8 -- Chapter9 -- Chapter10 -- Chapter11 -- Chapter12 -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Period and Other Terminology -- Presentational Conventions -- 1: Fields of Britannia -- Britain´s Green and Pleasant Land -- Perspectives on an Age of Transition -- The End of Roman Britain -- A `Late Antique´ Landscape? Native Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Lowland Britain -- The Fields of Britannia -- 2: A Regional Approach to Studying Landscape -- Landscape Character in Roman Britain -- Landscape Character in the Early Medieval Period -- The Earliest Medieval Period (Fifth to Mid-Seventh Centuries) -- The `Long Eighth Century´ (Late Seventh to Mid-Ninth Century) -- The Mid-Ninth to the Mid-Eleventh Centuries -- Mapping the Regions and Pays of First-Millenium ad Britain -- Regions -- Pays -- The Fields of Britannia Regions of Late Roman and Early Medieval Britain -- South East England -- The Central Zone -- East Anglia -- The South West -- Western Lowlands -- North East Lowlands -- Northern Uplands -- Lowland Wales -- Upland Wales -- 3: A Landscape Approach to the Roman-Medieval Transition -- Reconstructing Patterns of Land-Use -- Palaeoenvironmental Sequences -- Palaeoeconomic Data -- Methodological Considerations -- Animal Husbandry -- Cereal Cultivation -- Discussion -- The Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- Buried and Relict Landscapes -- Romano-British Field Systems Preserved Within the Historic Landscape of Today -- The Fieldscape of Early Medieval Britain -- The Earliest Medieval Period (the `Early and Middle Saxon Period´). The Long Eighth Century (`Middle Saxon Period´) and the Origins of Open Fields -- The Fields of Britannia Methodology -- A Note on Period Terminology -- Continuity and Discontinuity -- Changing Paradigms -- Continuity and Discontinuity of Different Landscape Components -- Modelling Landscape Change -- Discussion -- 4: The South East -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Brede, Pett, and Rye Levels: The Landward Edge of Romney Marsh -- The Weald -- The Weald Margin -- The South Downs -- The Hampshire Basin -- The Lower Thames Terraces -- The South Essex London Clay -- The Essex Boulder Clay Plateau -- Discussion: Land-Use Across the South East Region -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Coaxial Landscape of Southern Essex -- The Regularly Arranged Landscapes of Southern Essex: Discussion -- The Chalk Downlands -- Bagshot Heaths -- The Weald and Weald Margin -- Summary -- 5: East Anglia -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The East Anglian Boulder Clay Plateau -- Breckland -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Boulder Clay Plateau -- Breckland -- Discussion -- 6: The Central Zone -- Introduction -- Environment and Land Use -- The Upper Thames Valley -- Great Ouse Valley and Great Ouse Clay Vale -- The Nene Valley -- West Leicestershire Heaths and Clays -- Holderness -- The Yorkshire Wolds -- Summary -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Vale of Taunton Deane -- The Central Somerset Lowlands -- The Jurassic Limestone Hills -- The Vale of Gloucester -- The Upper Thames Valley -- East Midlands Clayland Pays -- Sherwood Forest and the Bunter Sandstones -- The Vale of Pickering -- Summary -- 7: The South West -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Granite Uplands in Cornwall -- Lowland Cornwall -- Dartmoor -- Lowland Devon -- Exmoor -- Blackdown Hills. Discussion -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- Red Devon -- The Blackdown Hills -- Lowland Cornwall -- West Penwith -- Discussion -- 8: The Western Lowlands -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Hills and Vales of Monmouthshire -- The Worcester Plain -- The Arden -- The Middle Severn Valley -- The Upper Severn Plain -- The Upper Trent Valley -- The Cheshire Hills -- The Merseyside and Lancashire Plain -- The Western Pennine Foothills -- Discussion -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- The Worcester Plain -- Vale of Evesham -- The Middle Avon Valley -- Arden -- Discussion -- 9: The North East Lowlands -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The North York Moors -- Tees, Tyne, and Wear Valleys -- Discussion -- The Legacy of the Late Romano-British Field Systems Landscape -- The Vale of York -- Discussion -- 10: The Northern Uplands -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use -- The Peak District -- The Pennines -- The Forest of Bowland -- The Cumbrian Uplands -- The Lake District -- The Barrow Peninsula -- The North Cumbrian Lowlands -- Weardale -- Discussion -- The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems -- Discussion -- 11: Upland and Lowland Wales -- Introduction -- Environment and Land-Use of the Lowlands of South Wales -- Environment and Land-Use of Upland Wales -- The Lleyn Peninsula -- Snowdonia -- The Cambrian Mountains -- The Coastal Lowlands of Cardigan Bay -- The Pembrokeshire Hills -- The Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons -- Discussion -- 12: Discussion and Conclusions -- New Light on an Old Problem -- Patterns of Land-Use in First Millenium ad Britain -- The Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- Potential Continuity in the Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- The Date of Discontinuity -- The Origins of Open Fields -- Understanding Excavations -- Conclusions -- Deconstructing `Continuity´. Towards a Model for Understanding Regional Variation in Landscape Character -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside.
9780191019517
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman.
Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
Land settlement patterns -- Great Britain -- History.
Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain.
Electronic books.
DA530 DA90
936.1