Living on the Edge
Subtitle: Archaeological Investigations at Steart Point, Somerset
Publisher: Wessex Archaeology
Published: Jul 27, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781874350897
Description: A number of significant sites and areas of past human activity and inhabitation from the Iron Age, the Romano-British period, the medieval and early post-medieval periods have been recorded. The results follow broad regional patterns seen in the Severn Estuary Levels, with the more regularly planned farming landscapes and permanent settlement evidence from the Romano-British period onwards, developing from seasonal, episodic exploitation of this resource-rich salt-marsh landscape. It has also highlighted extensive continuities within the Steart Point landscape of land divisions and drainage patterns which have their inception at least as far back as the early medieval period and possibly the Romano-British period.
Notes: Source title: Living on the Edge: Archaeological Investigations at Steart Point, Somerset (Wessex Archaeology Occasional Paper)