Isbn: 9781407316260 - industry and the making of a rural landscape: iron and pottery production at churchills farm, hemyock, devon (bar british) (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. XXII, 224 pp., 133 Figures BAR British Series 636 - 2018 Blue soft cover with photo-print: in good condition. Ex. of the Ghent University Library with the usual stamps, labels and numbers. No marks inside the book. A very good copy.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. pp. 262.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 246 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 27 tables, 133 figures (93 in colour). 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.…