The archaeology of Mendip : 500,000 years of continuity and change / edited by Jodie Lewis.
ISBN
9781905223282 : GBP35.00
Dewey Classmark
936.238
Local Dewey Classmark
T MEN
L 90.669
S 936.238 LEW
Publication
King's Lynn : Heritage, 2011.
Physical Description
424 p. : ill., maps, col. photos ; 27 cm
Contents
Contents: Contents: Jim Hanwell, The mapping and making of the Mendip landscape -- Roger Jacobi and Andrew Currant, The Late Pleistocene mammalian palaeontology and archaeology of Mendip-- Paul Davies, Assessing the Holocene environmental history of Mendip, the potential of tufa deposits -- Jodie Lewis, On Top of the world: The Mesolithic and Neolithic use of the Mendip Hills -- David Mullin, Barrows and Bronzes: The Bronze Age of Mendip-- Abigail Bryant, Iron age cave use on Mendip, a re-evaluation -- Ian Powlesland, East Mendip, cropmarks, field survey and the Iron Age -- Malcolm Todd, Roman Mining of Galena at Charterhouse-on- Mendip in the 1st century AD-- Peter Leach, Romans on the Fosse Way -- Albert Thompson, Praedium on Mendip? -- Michael Costen, Early settlement around the Mendips : place-names and local history-- Nick Corcos, Chew and Chewton: a pre-conquest river estate north of Mendip-- James Bond, The Acquisition and Exploitation of Monastic Holdings in the Mendip Region -- Penny Stokes: The Post-Medieval landscape of Mendip -- Donald Brown, Mendip starfish -- Richard Brunning, The view from below - the archaeology of Mendip's wetland fringe -- Hannah Firth and Krystyna Truscoe, The aggregate landscape of Somerset : predicting the archaeological resource.
Summary of Contents
Summary: The Mendip Hills in Somerset, south-west England, have an archaeological sequence that stretches back half a million years with many sites of national and international significance. This book presents the results of research and fresh ideas about the archaeology and history of the wider Mendip landscape.
Subject
Archaeology Somerset.
Archaeology by period / region (HDD) Somerset (1DBKEWS). bicssc
History (HIS). bicssc
Added Personal Name
Lewis, Jodie.
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The Mendip Hills in Somerset, south-west England, have an archaeological sequence that stretches back half a million years with many sites of national and international significance. This book presents the results of research and fresh ideas about the archaeology and history of the wider Mendip landscape.
