Somerset's peatland archaeology : managing and investigating a fragile resource : the results of the Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands (MARISP) Project / Richard Brunning ; with contributions by Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nigel Cameron, Gordon Cook, Paul Davies, Rownea Gale, W. Derek Hamilton, David Hogan, Julie Jones, Mark Jones, Harry Kenward, Annette Kreiser, Christine Locatelli, Peter Marshall, Vanessa Straker, Heather Tinsley, Cathy Tyers and Ian Tyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunning, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Historic sites--Conservation and restoration.

Monuments--Conservation and restoration.

Peatlands.

Somerset (England)--Antiquities.

Somerset (England).

Peatlands--England--Somerset.

Monuments--Conservation and restoration--England--Somerset.

Monuments.

Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--England--Somerset.

Historic sites.

Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Somerset.

Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands Project.

England--Somerset.

Physical Description:

xiii, 310 pages ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction to the Project

Methodology

Trackways

Platforms and Pile Alignments

Lake Villages

Medieval Causeway

Preservervation and Environmental Change

Research and Management Strategies

Appendix 1: Key for habitat groups and scale of abundance for plant macrofossil analysis tables

Appendix 2: Abbreviations for ecological codes and statistics used for interpretation of insect remains in text and tables

Appendix 3: MARISP pollen assessment plates

Appendix 4: MARISP plant macrofossil assessment figures

Appendix 5: Troels-Smith stratigraphic descriptions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781842174883

1842174886

OCLC:

833146539