Recent Approaches to the Archaeology of Land Allotment (BAR International)

The idea of this volume came out of two research gatherings that focused on land allotment and field systems. The first was a day seminar on Ancient Fields, held at the National Monuments Record centre at Swindon, England, in June 2002. The second was the session on Land Allotment at the 24th annual conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at Manchester University in December 2002. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction Land, landscape and Englishness in the discovery of prehistoric land division From clearance plots to ‘sustained’ farming: Peak District fields in prehistory Commons, fields and communities in prehistoric Cornwall Encounters with place in prehistory: writing a case study for Shipman Head Down, Isles of Scilly The place and materiality of an upland field system at Cwm Ffrydlas, North Wales After the axe: ways into the upland landscapes of Cumbria An empty hole, or a meaningful whole? Approaches to the study of pit alignments Towards a bounded landscape. Excavations at Gonalston, Nottinghamshire, and the development of the earliest field systems in the Trent Valley Late prehistoric and Romano-British land division in South and West Yorkshire: an overview of the evidence Fields for discourse? Towards more self-critical, theoretical and interpretative approaches to the archaeology of field systems and land allotment ‘The pleasant land of counterpane’: linking site-specific archaeological land use to the landscape of prehistoric field systems Mobile and enclosed landscapes on the Yorkshire Wolds Stone walls in west Östergötland – their dating and its consequences Unfamiliar landscapes: infields, outfields, boundaries and landscapes in Iceland Field-names in reconstructing late Anglo-Saxon agricultural land-use in the Bourn Valley, West Cambridgeshire Not so common fields: the making of the East Anglian landscape The co-axial field systems of Pembrokeshire revisited: towards an ekistic explanation Woodland and Champion: farming, ‘the social’, and the origins of medieval landscapes Parks and perceptions of parkland Parliamentary Process: the creation of farming landscapes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Buckinghamshire The irregularity of fields: historic piecemeal enclosure and dispersed settlement in upland England at the Upper Derwent, Peak District, and Great Langdale, Lake District