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Subject(s)

• Landscapes—England—West Country [Browse]
• West Country (England)—Historical geography [Browse]
• Land settlement patterns—England—West Country [Browse]
• Land settlement—England—West Country—History [Browse]
• City planning—England—West Country—History [Browse]
• Cities and towns—England—West Country [Browse]
• Historic sites—England—West Country [Browse]
• England, Southern—Historical geography [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The physical character of landscape
• 3. 'The most beautiful landskip in the world'? The perceived character of landscape
• 4. Characterizing the cultural landscape: the pattern and language of settlement
• 5. Houses in the landscape
• 6. The character of the fieldscape
• 7. Beyond the morphology of fieldscapes
• 8. Reconstructing early medieval territorial arrangements
• 9. Early folk territories on and around the Blackdown Hills
• 10. People in the landscape: the development of territorial structures in early medieval western Wessex and beyond
• 11. Patterns of land use: documentary evidence and palaeoenvironmental sequences
• 12. Arable cultivation and animal husbandry in the medieval period
• 13. Arable cultivation and animal husbandry in the Roman period
• 14. Regional variation in landscape character during the late prehistoric and Roman periods
• 15. Discussion and conclusions: communities and their landscapes.

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ISBN

• 9780199533787
• 0199533784

OCLC

774494382

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