The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England

by Martin J. Ryan

Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many questions about the nature of landscape development at the time, the changing nature of systems of land...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843835827
• ISBN13: 9781843835820
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"