The Shapwick Project, Somerset

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Book Somerset book. This book provides an introduction to the Shapwick Project's objectives, geographical background and previous work in the Somerset. It deals with excavations in the outlying parish and focuses on work in the village at Shapwick House.

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Excavations at Shapwick 8. Excavations in the Outlying Parish 9. Excavations at and Near Church Field Excavations in Shapwick Village Excavations in Shapwick Park Excavations at Shapwick House Mansion Part IV: Objects, Industry and Structural Materials Pottery Clay Pipes and Objects   The Shapwick Project, Somerset: A Rural Landscape Explored, by.

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Shapwick was a settlement in Domesday The Shapwick Project, in the hundred of Whitley and the county of Somerset. It had a recorded population of households inputting it in the largest 40% of settlements recorded in Domesday (NB: households is an estimate, since. The Shapwick Project began in as a Somerset book, multi-disciplinary landscape investigation of the evolution of early and late medieval settlement patterns.

This volume sets out the methods used in the exploration of this wetland-edge landscape and summarises the long term micro-history of a community and its lands from early prehistory to the present day. Shapwick was granted to the abbey at. The fieldwork was mainly undertaken between andand there was a further five years of analysis and report writing.

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Interpreting the English Village. Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset. By Mick Ashton and Chris Gerard. Windgather Press and Oxbow Books, Oxford ISBN: Shapwick was a settlement in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Badbury and the county of Dorset.

It had a recorded population of households inputting it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in Domesday (NB: households is an estimate, since. Aston published the results of the project in The Shapwick Project, Somerset: A Rural Landscape Explored (), co-written with Christopher Gerrard, and this was followed by a more popular account of the project, Interpreting the English Village, in Born: Michael Antony Aston, 1 JulyOldbury.

An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who lived there/5(10).

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An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who lived there.

The present Shapwick House Hotel, formerly the manor house and Shapwick House, stands within a moat which may date from the 12th century. (fn. 90) Externally the house appears to be of the earlier 17th and the 19th century, but it contains the substantial remains of an L-shaped building of c.

comprising a first-floor hall and chamber. Shapwick Heath is a hectare ( acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and national nature reserve between Shapwick and Westhay in Somerset, notified in It is part of the Brue Valley Living Landscape conservation project.

The project commenced in January and aims to restore, recreate and reconnect aims to ensure that wildlife is enhanced and capable Coordinates: 51°09′33″N 2°48′52″W /.

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Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic center of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who lived : Windgather Press.

The Shapwick Project, Somerset: A Rural Landscape Explored. Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Type Book Author(s) Christopher M. Gerrard, Michael Aston, Andrew Reynolds Date Publisher Society for Medieval Archaeology Pub place Leeds Volume The Society for. Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset: : Aston, Mick, Gerrard, Christopher: Books/5(22).

Shapwick Parish lies in the Hundred of Badbury, its name derives from the Saxon {Sceap+uuic} DBmeaning sheep village. In recorded as Shepwyk OE It was the smallest of the four Manors in East Dorset and pre-dates the Norman period.

The Manor and the other three were seen as one unit, and before they were known as King Edwards. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the, ISBN Buy the Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset ebook.

This acclaimed book by Mick Aston is available at in several formats for your eReader. Christopher Gerrard is the author of The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain ( avg rating, 1 rating, 0 reviews), The Shapwick Pr /5(7).

Shapwick was featured in all its glory in CA one last time in issue (November ), with a grand end-of-project review of work undertaken there since This celebrates the interdisciplinary approaches undertaken (how many projects, even today, have archaeologists, historians, geologists, and botanists all working together?), and the Author: Joe Flatman.

A highly readable account of the Shapwick project is available in Mick's latest publication with Chris Gerrard, Interpreting the English Village.

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In Aston, M, Austin, D and Dyer, C (eds), The rural settle-ments of medieval England, – Aston, M. Aerial survey work in In Aston and Costen37– Aston, M. The Shapwick. Shapwick is the home of ‘The Sweet Track', one of the World's oldest known structures consisting of a wooden causeway across the Somerset marshlands dating back years.

Shapwick was also the site of Britain's largest ever find of Roman coinage, some 9, silver denarii found in. SHAPWICK HEATH Pdf Nature Reserve Newsletter The work at the top of the Gorge has also involved volunteers from the Mendip Hills AONB, a great example of how the Shapwick team work closely with other organisations.

A day was also spent working File Size: 1MB. An original and approachable account of how archaeology download pdf tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who lived there.

More than 1, hedge plants ebook been planted across Shapwick Moor, as part of a project to turn acres of arable farmland into a nature reserve. In the past year, volunteers from the Hawk and Owl Trust have also put up nestboxes, laid hedges and replanted rare native wildflowers.