Somerset's peatland archaeology : : managing and investigating a fragile resource : the results of the Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands (MARISP) Project / / Richard Brunning ; with contributions by Christopher Bronk Ramsey [and sixteen others].
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's pr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford, England ;, Oakville, Connecticut : : Oxbow Books,, [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Project
- Methodology
- Trackways
- Platforms and Pile Alignments
- Lake Villages
- Medieval Causeway
- Preservervation and Environmental Change
- Research and Management Strategies
- Appendix 1: Key for habitat groups and scale of abundance for plant macrofossil analysis tables
- Appendix 2: Abbreviations for ecological codes and statistics used for interpretation of insect remains in text and tables
- Appendix 3: MARISP pollen assessment plates
- Appendix 4: MARISP plant macrofossil assessment figures
- Appendix 5: Troels-Smith stratigraphic descriptions.