Research Catalog

Title

Living on the edge : archaeological investigations at Steart Point, Somerset / Lorraine Higbee and Lorraine Mepham ; with Alistair J. Barclay [and ten others] ; illustrations by Rob Goller and S.E. James.

Author

Higbee, Lorrain

Publication

• Salisbury : Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Mepham, Lorraine
• Barclay, Alistair
• Goller, Rob
• James, S. E. (Illustrator)

Description

viii, 102 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm

Summary

A number of significant sites and areas of past human activity and inhabitation from the Iron Age, the Romano-British period, the medieval and early post-medieval periods have been recorded. The results follow broad regional patterns seen in the Severn Estuary Levels, with the more regularly planned farming landscapes and permanent settlement evidence from the Romano-British period onwards, developing from seasonal, episodic exploitation of this resource-rich salt-marsh landscape. It has also highlighted extensive continuities within the Steart Point landscape of land divisions and drainage patterns which have their inception at least as far back as the early medieval period and possibly the Romano-British period.

Series Statement

Wessex Archaeology Occasional Papers

Uniform Title

Wessex Archaeology Occasional Papers.

Subject

• Antiquities
• Somerset (England) > Antiquities
• England > Somerset

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-102).

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- Project background -- Geology, topography and land-use -- Historical and archaeological background -- Methodology -- Evaluation -- Watching brief -- Excavation -- ch. 2 Settlement Sequence -- Middle -- Late Iron Age -- Area 500 -- Area E -- Romano-British -- Area 500 -- Area 501 -- Area E -- Medieval -- Area 500 -- Area 501 -- Area 502 -- Area 503 -- `Moated' sites -- Post-medieval -- Area 503 -- ch. 3 The Finds -- Prehistoric pottery / Rachael Seager Smith -- Methodology -- Results -- Distribution -- Discussion -- Romano-British pottery / Rachael Seager Smith -- Methodology -- Composition of the assemblage -- Distribution -- Discussion -- Medieval and post-medieval pottery / Lorraine Mepham -- Methodology -- Medieval -- Post-medieval -- Pottery distribution -- Discussion -- Other finds / Nicholas Cooke -- Ceramic building material -- Fired clay -- Stone -- Struck flint and stone -- Glass -- Coins / Nicholas Cooke -- Metalwork -- Shale -- Leather -- Worked bone -- Marine shell -- Human bone / Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy -- Methodology -- Results and discussion -- Animal bone / Lorrain Higbee -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- ch. 4 Environmental Evidence -- Charred plant remains / Sarah F. Wyles -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Summary -- Wood charcoal / Dana Challinor -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Molluscan remains / Sarah F. Wyles -- Methodology -- Results -- Summary -- Pollen / Michael J. Grant -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusions -- Geoarchaeology / John Russell -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusions -- Radiocarbon dating / Alistair J. Barclay -- ch. 5 Discussion / Christopher Phillpotts -- Middle -- Late Iron Age -- Introduction: changing environments -- Settlement patterns -- Life on the edge -- Romano-British -- Introduction: reclamation -- Settlement, industry and trade -- Permanent residence or seasonal occupation? -- Head for the hills -- Post-Roman -- Introduction: continuity versus desertion -- Medieval origins -- Coastal resources -- Drainage, reclamation and sea defences -- Medieval expansion -- Post-medieval prosperity -- Overwhelmed by the sea? -- Later decline.

ISBN

• 9781874350897
• 1874350892

LCCN

2017380365

OCLC

• ocn980238334
• 980238334
• SCSB-1884584

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library