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

 
9781407316260: Industry and the Making of a Rural Landscape: Iron and pottery production at Churchills Farm, Hemyock, Devon: 636 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1407316265 ISBN 13: 9781407316260
Publisher: BAR Publishing, 2018

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.

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Chris Smart

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Publisher
BAR Publishing
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1407316265
ISBN 13 
9781407316260
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
260
Editor
Smart Chris