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Description for Yarnton
Hardcover. The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activity. Settlements on the edge of the Second Gravel Terrace were occupied throughout the Iron Age and Roman periods. Num Pages: 655 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: 3JJPN; HDDA; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 304 x 218 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2782.
The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activity. Settlements on the edge of the Second Gravel Terrace were occupied throughout the Iron Age and Roman periods. Associated with the middle Iron Age settlement was a small cemetery of some 35 crouched inhumation burials. Further burials were made in the Roman period. The Roman settlement is marked by its ditched enclosures and small paddocks suggesting intensive stock management, although ... Read more
The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activity. Settlements on the edge of the Second Gravel Terrace were occupied throughout the Iron Age and Roman periods. Associated with the middle Iron Age settlement was a small cemetery of some 35 crouched inhumation burials. Further burials were made in the Roman period. The Roman settlement is marked by its ditched enclosures and small paddocks suggesting intensive stock management, although ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University School of Archaeology United Kingdom
Number of pages
655
Condition
New
Number of Pages
655
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905905218
SKU
V9781905905218
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Ref
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About Gill Hey
Gill Hey is CEO of Oxford Archaeology with research interests in Neolithic Britain.
Reviews for Yarnton
"The volume, and its companions, provides a splendid addition to the existing series of reports on the archaeology of this area...[and] is of great importance"
Barry C. Burnham Britannia
Barry C. Burnham Britannia