Iron Age Britain (Temporal Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

The booklet presents three types of houses of the Iron Age in Britain: The Canderton Round house, The Glastonburg Round House, and the Breiddin Round House. It demonstrates issues and advantages of the structures of the different houses. Beside houses, also ditches, palisades, and ramparts are discussed shortly. The experiments done in and around these houses included all domestic and agricultural tasks like weaving and sowing out crops.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

Reynolds opens the debate of experimental archaeology and science as a cooperation in demonstration areas and open air museums. He describes which farms are already open and how they were used. Little Butser, Hampshire was used as an open demonstrative area for scientists and public, while in Hillhampton Down the area was used as an Open Air Museum. Comparing both places, issues and advantages came up. On the one hand, free demonstrative areas give a lot of freedom to decide which projects and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

The conventional view of the lron Age is that it was a subsistence society, eking out a basic existence until the arrival of civilising Romans. As Dr Peter Reynolds of the Butser Ancient Farm reveals, nothing could be further from the truth. Britain was the bread basket of Western Europe and a major supplier of grain to the Roman Empire.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

This article reports on agricultural experiments on the Butser Ancient Farm, testing emmer and spelt. The article introduces Butser Ancient Farm, including the four locations, which are in four different climatic zones. Some of these agricultural lands seem inhospitable. The soil is described in detail in order to understand agricultural changes and how tools affected the soil. Another debate in the articles focuses on the treatment of weeds. Two constant factors were maintained throughout...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J Reynolds.

The purpose of this paper is to explain briefly the range of research, both past and current being conducted into the problem of understanding the prehistoric practice of storing grain in underground pits. The specific period in question is the British Iron Age, c. 150 B.C. - 43 A.D. The archaeological and documentary evidence suggests that some of the ubiquitous pits discovered on native lron Age sites on the majority of the subsoil types in England were used for the bulk storage of grain....

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Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past...

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This paper considers briefly the implications of stake-holes and post-holes with special reference to their structural and constructional qualities, and those factors which may affect their archaeological form. the case studies of two specific reconstructions of Iron Age round-houses are presented. The first is a post- and stake-built structure based on an excavation at Pimperne Down, Dorest. The second is a stone-built structure based on the excavation of Conderton Camp on Bredon Hill, Wors. In...