Cornwall's trans-peninsular route : socio-economic and cultural continuity across the Camel/Fowey corridor : 'The way of saints' from the Roman period to AD 700 / Mark Borlase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borlase, Mark, author.

Series:

BAR British series ; 653.

BAR British series ; 653

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cornwall (England : County)--History--To 1500.

Cornwall (England : County).

Trade routes--England--Cornwall--History.

Trade routes.

England--Cornwall (County).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

The Camel and Fowey rivers incise deeply into Cornwall, nearly meeting in the middle. This book is a landscape study of the Camel/Fowey corridor which forms a natural trans-peninsular portage route across Cornwall, avoiding circumnavigating the notoriously hazardous Land's End sea route. The author investigates the effect this route had on society through micro- and macro settlement studies involving an extensive programme of geophysical analysis. This has generated fresh insight into the socio-economic and continuity dynamics of this part of Cornwall, together with the interaction between Romans and the indigenous population. The findings explore socio-political influences in the Roman period and cultural continuity into the post-Roman period.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 30, 2020).

ISBN:

9781407356181

1407356186

OCLC:

1504509492