Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture?
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 pa...
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2022
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| author | Forster, E Charles, M |
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| description | 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.
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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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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6c2a4eb4-c220-4313-8116-94d9c6d442c82023-10-17T10:11:50ZAgricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture?Book sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:6c2a4eb4-c220-4313-8116-94d9c6d442c8EnglishSymplectic ElementsLiverpool University Press2022Forster, ECharles, MMcKerracher, MHamerow, HPollen 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. <br> 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... |
| spellingShingle | Forster, E Charles, M Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture? |
| title | Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture? |
| title_full | Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture? |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture? |
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| title_short | Agricultural land use in central, east and south-east England: arable or pasture? |
| title_sort | agricultural land use in central east and south east england arable or pasture |
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