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Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture?
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Pollen data provide the best available large-scale, long-term evidence for vegetation and agricultural land use. In this paper we bring together data from numerous studies covering parts of central, east and south-east England spanning c. AD 300–1500, in order to understand how the landscape, and particularly the nature and scale of farming, changed over time.
This period encompasses the late Romano-British to post-Roman transition of the fourth to fifth centuries, a time when population declined and long-distance trade networks collapsed (Esmonde Cleary, 1991). These changes are often assumed to have resulted in the abandonment of farmland, as a significantly...
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- 10.2307/j.ctv333ktnp.12
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+ McKerracher, M
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- School of Archaeology
- Role:
- Editor
+ Hamerow, H
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- School of Archaeology
- Role:
- Editor
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- 0000-0001-5643-5888
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Host title:
- New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: Crop, Stock and Furrow
- Pages:
- 61-86
- Chapter number:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
- Publication date:
- 2022-11-01
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781802079043
- ISBN-10:
- 1802079041
- ISBN-13:
- 9781802077230
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English
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1334037
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pubs:1334037
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2023-07-19
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- 2022
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