First published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork
and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award. This major new edition adds …

The British landscape is remarkably varied in its character. To a considerable extent this
results from the different ways that successive generations of human communities have …

How did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to
argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent cataclysm or an …

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the'richest historical
records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore …

Using the data presented in their companion volume, An Atlas of Rural Settlement in
England (2000), the authors offer preliminary explorations of some of the patterns revealed …

The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the
natural environment and geographical features. The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the …

The varied character of Britain's countryside and towns provides communities with a strong
sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the southern British landscape …

Why is it that in some places around the world communities live in villages, while elsewhere
people live in isolated houses scattered across the landscape? How does archaeology …

This book explores the development of territorial identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and
early medieval periods. Over the course of the Iron Age, a series of marked regional …

The central questions of this book are, first, whether medieval rights of common pasture–
exercised over large and small areas across England, each carefully defined, and some still …