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‘By 1330 … nearly every line was drawn’; New Light on Devon’s Landscape History, 70 years after W. G. Hoskins
‘By 1330 … nearly every line was drawn’; New Light on Devon’s Landscape History, 70 years after W. G. Hoskins
W. G. Hoskin's seminal book Devon was published in 1954. It suggested the pattern of the county's historic landscape was established by the later Middle Ages. Recent research using innovative geoarchaeological methods has enabled new analyses of Devon's historic field boundaries, showing that the medieval field pattern which survives today first developed several centuries earlier …
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Project Ancient Tin: Did British tin sources and trade make Bronze Age Europe?
Project Ancient Tin: Did British tin sources and trade make Bronze Age Europe?
Joint Lecture with Cornwall Archaeological Society In c. 2200 BC, Britain and Ireland were the first regions in Europe to completely switch over from copper to Bronze metal, typically with around 10% tin. This change spread across the rest of Bronze Age Europe and the Mediterranean over the following centuries. There has long been speculation …