Pegswood Moor, Morpeth : a later Iron age and Romano-British farmstead settlement /

Pegswood Moor, Morpeth : a later Iron age and Romano-British farmstead settlement /

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Author / Creator:	Proctor, Jennifer.
Imprint:	London [England] : Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited, c2009.
Description:	xii, 115 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Monograph / Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited ; no. 11 Monograph (Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited (Firm)) ; no. 11.
Subject:	Antiquities, Prehistoric -- England -- Morpeth. Iron age -- England -- Morpeth. Antiquities. Antiquities, Prehistoric. Classical antiquities. Iron age. Morpeth (England) -- Antiquities. England -- Morpeth. England -- Northumberland.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8059140

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Varying Form of Title:	Later Iron age and Romano-British farmstead settlement
Other authors / contributors:	Ridgeway, Victoria.
ISBN:	0956305407 9780956305404
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-111) and index.
Summary:	"Lying 8km inland on the Northumberland Coastal Plain Pegswood Moor seems to have attracted its first permanent settlers around the 4th century BC. Initially a small and apparently isolated farmstead, by the 2nd century BC this had expanded into an organized enclosed settlement with areas set aside for stock-keeping, habitation, manufacturing and processing activities, including pottery production. Evidence suggests a mixed agricultural economy, whilst a droveway leading towards the coast and field systems extending away from the focus of habitation point to extensive exploitation of the wider landscape." "Towards the end of the 1st century AD there was a fundamental change in the management of this landscape, with new boundaries established on different alignments. Most striking was the construction of a substantial timber enclosure built through the line of several roundhouse dwellings - a seemingly deliberate and pointed statement. Tantalizingly, no associated focus of habitation was found within the area of excavation and, as with the majority of other excavated settlements in the area, evidence for occupation after the 2nd century was absent. The impetus for this sudden yet short-lived change can only be speculated on - but the arrival of vast numbers of Roman troops in the region with all their attendant requirements must surely be in part responsible." --Book Jacket.

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