With contributions by Nigel Cameron Paul Davies Simon Dobinson Rowena Gale Alejandra Gutierrez Sheila Hamilton Dyer Jen Heathcote Colin Humphreys Julie Jones Amanda Kear Annette Kreiser Alan Outram Richard Parker the late David Richards Jane Timby Heather Tinsley and Ciorstaidh Trevarthen From 1993 the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD The inter disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological survey and excavation data palaeoenvironmental evidence studies of documentary sources architecture cartography and field and place names to what was already known about the historic landscape This report which publishes the findings of the project examines local and regional changes and variations in the landscape focusing on two major phases of exploitation modification and transformation during the Roman and medieval periods Factors such as agriculture grazing salt production fishing draining flood defence and the establishment of settlements roads commons field systems as well as cultural factors are all discussed as evidence from the local area is placed within a wider regional context An excellent study which exemplifies all that is new and exciting in landscape study

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