Assessing Iron Age marsh-forts with reference to the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment surrounding the Berth, North Shropshire.

This volume assesses marsh-forts as a separate phenomenon within Iron Age society through an understanding of their landscape context and palaeoenvironmental development. These substantial monuments appear to have been deliberately constructed to control areas of marginal wetland and may have played...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: NORTON, SHELAGH
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : ARCHAEOPRESS, 2021.
Temas:
Iron age > England > North Shropshire.
Fortification, Prehistoric > England > North Shropshire.
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > North Shropshire.
Prehistoric archaeology.
Environmental archaeology.
Landscape archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Fortification, Prehistoric
Iron age
North Shropshire (England) > Antiquities.
England > North Shropshire
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents Page
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter 1
  • Assessing Iron Age marsh-forts
  • an introduction
  • 1.1. Marsh-forts in a hillfort context
  • 1.2. The 'problem' with hillforts
  • 1.3. The archaeological and ecological opportunities presented by wetlands
  • 1.4. Structure
  • Assessing Iron Age marsh-forts
  • an introduction
  • Figure 1.1. Research structure.
  • 1.5. Definitions
  • 1.5.1. Defining terms
  • 1.5.2. Chronology
  • 1.5.3. Radiocarbon dates
  • Chapter 2
  • The British Iron Age, hillforts and marsh-forts
  • literature review
  • 2.1. Summarising Iron Age studies
  • 2.1.1. Antiquarian and early twentieth-century paradigms
  • 2.1.2. A 'New Archaeology' for the Iron Age
  • 2.1.3. A post-processual perspective
  • 2.1.4. Thematic studies and agendas
  • 2.2. Iron Age landscapes
  • hillforts and enclosures
  • Figure 2.1. Zones of differing settlement forms
  • (adapted from Cunliffe, 2005 Figure 4.3).
  • 2.2.1. Inventories, classifications and groups
  • 2.2.2. Hillfort, enclosure and the implications for settlement
  • 2.2.3. Iron Age climatic change and changes in landuse
  • 2.3. Marsh-forts
  • 2.3.1. Sutton Common (Fig. 2.2)
  • Figure 2.2. Artist's impression of Sutton Common, showing twin enclosures, multivallation, causeways and 4- and 6-post structures (Van der Noort et al, 2007:Fig. 10.1). Image reproduced by kind permission of the Council for British Archaeology.
  • 2.4. Summary
  • 3.1. Site selection
  • national and regional marsh-forts
  • 3.1.1. National Level
  • Marsh-Fort Gazetteer
  • 3.1.2. Regional Level
  • North Shropshire's marsh-forts
  • Chapter 3
  • Methodology and Resources
  • 3.1.3. Local level
  • The Berth and Wall Camp
  • 3.2. The Berth
  • 3.2.1. Ground conditions and equipment
  • 3.2.2. Stratigraphic coring and palaeoenvironmental sampling
  • Figure 3.1. The Berth, showing Scheduled Area, large and small enclosures, Berth Pool and field names together with coring and organic sampling locations and 2016 trench positions (Source: LiDAR 1m DSM
  • accessed May 2017).
  • Figure 3.2. BNP 15
  • 0-100cm, showing the transition from top soil (left) to peat (right).
  • Figure 3.3. BNP15
  • showing large wood inclusion between 180-220cm.
  • Figure 3.4. BNP 15
  • varved shelly marl between 360-460cm.
  • 3.2.3. Radiocarbon determinations
  • 3.2.4. Post-fieldwork
  • processing and analysis of palaeoenvironmental data
  • Table 3.1. The Berth
  • plant macrofossil and beetle samples by location.
  • 3.2.5. Adopting a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental approach to landscape reconstruction
  • Figure 3.5. An indication of the spatial representation available from nested data-sets.
  • Table 3.2. The Berth Coleoptera
  • MNI: Species ratio.
  • Table 3.3. Plant macrofossil and insects habitat groupings.
  • 3.3. Summary

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