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The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor

Out of Print
By: Phil Newman(Author)
264 pages, colour photos, colour & b/w maps
The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor
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  • The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor ISBN: 9781848020337 Paperback Jun 2011 Out of Print #210023
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The modern visitor to Devon, travelling west into the region, is greeted by a panorama of the high ground and rocky outcrops of Dartmoor. In a county renowned for its 'rolling hills', Dartmoor's high moors, topped by granite tors, preside over the massive folds of its peripheral valleys, incised by the fast-moving moorland rivers and streams as they flow towards the hinterland. Dartmoor was designated as one of England's first National Parks in 1951. It is this natural beauty and tranquil, rural landscape that initially attracts visitors, but a fuller appreciation of this landscape is enhanced by knowledge of its cultural past. Dartmoor is southern England's largest upland tract, often promoted as 'England's last wilderness'. Nevertheless it is a maintained landscape. Its management began with traditional forms of hill farming and woodland management in the Neolithic, and continues to the present day.

The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor describes and narrates Dartmoor's landscape history from 4000 BC to the present, analysing and summarising archaeological and historical studies from the 19th century onwards. A brief section describes Dartmoor's geological shape. Then its prehistoric settlement, Romano-British organisation, medieval character and early tin industry are described in turn. Next, Dartmoor's 19th- and 20th-century industrial landscape and heritage (tin, copper, silver-lead and China clay), and how they co-existed with traditional forms of upland farming, are described. Subsidiary industries (peat, gunpowder mills, ice works and tramways) and the moor's use for military training bring the narrative up to the present. A concluding summary assesses Dartmoor's history and ponders its future.

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Prehistoric Dartmoor
1. From antiquary to landscape archaeologists: the discovery of Dartmoor's remote past
2. Mesolithic to Bronze Age
3. Settlement and land division in the 2nd millennium BC
4. The Iron Age and Romano-British periods, 800 BC to AD 409

Part Two: The medieval and post-medieval landscape
5. Early medieval Dartmoor, AD 410-1066
6. Castles and status around medieval Dartmoor
7. Medieval farming and settlement on the uplands
8. The medieval tin industry, 1150-1700
9. Warreners and improvers in the post-medieval and early-modern periods

Part Three: The industrial and military landscape
10. Moorstone and granite
11. Mining for tin, copper and silver-lead
12. China clay
13. Miscellaneous industries: peat, gunpowder mills, ice works and tramways
14. Security and defence in the modern period
15. Conclusion

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Biography

Phil Newman is a former Investigator in the English Heritage Archaeology Survey Team

Out of Print
By: Phil Newman(Author)
264 pages, colour photos, colour & b/w maps
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