Impinging on the Past: A Rescue Excavation at Fladbury, Worcestershire, 1967 (Southampton Monographs in Archaeology) - Softcover

Hinton, David; Peacock, D.P.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992633699 ISBN 13: 9780992633691

Publisher: The Highfield Press, 2020

Synopsis

The prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon periods were all represented in an excavation carried out in the center of a Worcestershire village some time ago, but with results that can now be seen in new light because of all the archaeological work that has taken place since. A deep Iron Age ditch can be set in the context of enclosures revealed, mainly by air photography, of the gravel terraces in the river valleys of the Severn and Avon. The Romano-British skeletons form a small, elderly and hard-worked group, providing a contrast to the better-known large urban cemeteries. The growing of crops on an increasingly large scale has been demonstrated for the seventh to ninth centuries A.D., and at Fladbury the complex arrangements made to dry grain on what is known to have been a large and important estate show the resources put into feeding royal, aristocratic, and ecclesiastical households.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Highfield Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992633699
• ISBN 13: 9780992633691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96