Industry and the Making of a Rural Landscape | Iron and pottery production at Churchills Farm, Hemyock, Devon (636) (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Chris Smart (ed)

ISBN 10: 1407316265 / ISBN 13: 9781407316260

Published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd, 2018

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2018, 8 x 11.5 inches approx, 238 pages | lightly shelfworn unread copy is barely distinguishable from new | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Industry and the Making of a Rural Landscape | Iron and pottery production at Churchills Farm, Hemyock, Devon (636) (British Archaeological Reports British Series)
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1407316265
• ISBN 13: 9781407316260
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Local History

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Synopsis

This book presents the results of excavation and analysis of technological remains from the Devon village of Hemyock, on the north-west side of the Blackdown Hills. The first major subject covered is an examination of early medieval iron technology including the largest group of C14-dated furnaces of the late 9th to early 10th centuries in Britain, which has afforded a re-examination and modelling of all other dated examples in the UK, and a review of technological change in iron production. The second major element to this volume is the study of a later major pottery production centre, dated c. 1500-1550, using a combination of microscopic and macroscopic petrology, ICP-MS and QEMSCAN in novel analysis of over 50,000 sherds. The final chapter considers evidence for the contemporary landscape context of and historical framework behind these industries, the relationship with extraction sites, and the wider environmental impacts that they had.

About the Author

Chris Smart