Eckweek, Peasedown St John, Somerset : Survey and Excavations at a Shrunken Medieval Hamlet 1988-90 Paperback / softback
by Andrew Young
Edited by The Society for Medieval Archaeology
Part of the The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession of well-preserved buildings spanning the late 10th to the 14th centuries A.D. forming the nucleus of a Domesday manor and its Late Saxon precursor.
Detailed analysis of the structural sequence offers a new regional perspective on pre-Conquest earthfast timber architecture and its subsequent (12th-century) replacement by masonry traditions.
Culminating in a richly preserved 14th-century farmhouse, including a very complete assemblage of structural and domestic objects, the structural archaeology provides an unusually refined picture of the internal organisation of later medieval domestic space within a rural farming setting.
Detailed analytical attention is given to the abundant artefactual and environmental datasets recovered from the excavations (including prolific assemblages of medieval pottery and palaeonvironmental data) with a nuanced appraisal of their interpretative implications.
Anyone with an interest in the dynamics and regional complexity of medieval rural communities will find this a stimulating and enlightening read.
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- Pages:312 pages, 41 Tables, black and white; 6 Halftones, color; 200 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustr
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- Publication Date:30/04/2020
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- ISBN:9780367860318
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 41 Tables, black and white; 6 Halftones, color; 200 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustr
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367860318
