Landscape, Community and Colonisation: The North Somerset Levels During the 1st to 2nd Millennia AD

List of abbreviations viii
List of illustrations ix
List of tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of contributors xiv
Summary xv
Glossary xix
Part 1: Understanding the history of a landscape
1. Introduction: a marshland community and its landscape 3
2. Researching the origins and development of an historic landscape 17
Part 2: Late prehistoric and Romano-British landscape
3. The wetland wilderness: the late prehistoric and Romano-British environment 33
4. Landscape modification and transformation in the late Iron Age and Roman period 42
5. The Romano-British landscape reconstructed and in context 64
Part 3: The making of the historic landscape
6. Created on a cleaned slate: a characterisation of the historic landscape 85
7. Of kings, bishops and knights: the social and tenurial context of landscape change 126
8. Peasants and yeomen: the tenements and houses of a marshland community 149
9. The evolution of a marshland settlement: Puxton — ‘summer dike’, village and hamlet 190
10. The medieval and post-medieval environment and economy of Puxton: palaeoenvironmental reports 229
Part 4: Discussion and conclusions
11. Changing environment and economy in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD 251
12. Changing patterns of wetland utilisation in context 267
References 280
Bibliography 285
Index 302

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