附註:Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABSTRACT; RÉSUMÉ; ZUSAMMENFASSUNG; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Living on the edge; 1.2 Southern England and the Atlantic economy; 1.3 The political ascendancy of the Lowlands of Southern England; 1.4 Political economies and conspicuous production; 1.5 Prehistoric field systems in Southern England: a century of research; 1.6 Research methodology; 1.7 Developer-funding and landscape exploration; 1.8 Chronology; CHAPTER 2. THE RANGE OF EVIDENCE; 2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Field layout2.3 Boundary construction; 2.4 Stock handling features; 2.5 Settlement evidence; 2.6 Special deposits in field and settlement boundaries; 2.7 Environmental evidence; 2.8 Evidence of counter claims in land ownership; CHAPTER 3. THE STRAITS OF DOVER AND THE THAMES ESTUARY; 3.1 The search; 3.2 Emerging patterns in the SE corner; 3.3 Social inequality; 3.4 Mucking to South Hornchurch; 3.5 Contacts with afar; 3.6 Conclusion; CHAPTER 4. THE LONDON BASIN; 4.1 Into the heart of things; 4.2 Rolling down the Lea; 4.3 Lambeth, Southwark and Bermondsey; 4.4 The River Wandle floodplain.
4.5 The West of London gravel terraces4.6 Mind the gap; CHAPTER 5. THE UPPER THAMES VALLEY; 5.1 Worlds apart; 5.2 The new frontier; 5.3 A polar reversal: the upper reaches of the Thames in Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire; 5.4 Reflections on the Thames; CHAPTER 6. THE SUSSEX COAST, DOWNLANDS AND WEALD; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2 The Weald; 6.3 The Sussex Coastal Plain; 6.4 The South Downs; CHAPTER 7. THE SOLENT BASIN; 7.1 Solent Lowlands; 7.2 Southampton Waters; 7.3 The New Forest; 7.4 Christchurch Harbour and Hengistbury Head; 7.5 Poole Harbour: Corfe, Frome and Piddle; 7.6 Dorchester.
7.7 Over the rim of the basin7.8 Basin reflections; CHAPTER 8. THE WEST COUNTRY; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Devon-off the Moors; 8.3 Cornwall; 8.4 St George's Channel towards Bristol; CHAPTER 9. THE NORTH SEA COAST; 9.1 The Eastern Seaboard; 9.2 The Lower Blackwater; 9.3 Inland from the Blackwater Estuary; 9.4 Colchester, Clacton and Tendring; 9.5 Orwell and Deben; 9.6 Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth; 9.7 Land division north of the Wash to the Scottish borders; 9.8 Changing times: the Early Iron Age along the North Sea coast; CHAPTER 10. INTO THE FENS; 10.1 Fenland research; 10.2 Northern Fens.
10.3 The Welland10.4 The River Nene and Flag Fen Basin; 10.5 The Great Ouse; 10.6 River Cam; 10.7 River Snail-River Lark; 10.8 Little Ouse River; CHAPTER 11. THE SEVERN AND AVON VALES; 11.1 From Bredon to the Breiddin; 11.2 The Severn Vale; 11.3 The Vale of Evesham and the Avon; 11.4 Gloucestershire north of the Chilterns; CHAPTER 12. PATTERNS IN THE LAND; 12.1 Economic growth in the second and early first millennium BC; 12.2 How representative are these data?; 12.3 Where and when?; 12.4 Metal concentrations and land divisions; 12.5 Farming intensification?; 12.6 Social implications.
Chapter 13. symbolism and subtleties.
摘要:A major phase of economic expansion occurred in southern England during the second and early first millennium BC, accompanied by a fundamental shift in regional power and wealth towards the eastern lowlands. This book offers a synthesis of available data on Bronze Age lowland field systems in England, including a gazetteer of sites. The research demonstrates the importance of large-scale animal husbandry in the mixed farming regimes as evidenced in the design of the field systems which incorporate droveways, stock proof fencing, watering holes, cow pens, sheep races and gateways for stockhandl.
