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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Pre-title Page -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Publisher -- Dedication -- Sponsors -- PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS -- Staff and Volunteers of the Winchester Research Unit -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I: INTRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENT -- 1 INTRODUCTION by MARTIN BIDDLE and JANE M. RENFREW with contributions by FRANCIS J. GREEN and PATRICK OTTAWAY -- 2 THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE WINCHESTER REGION by JANE M. RENFREW and PATRICK OTTAWAY |
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PART II THE WRITTEN EVIDENCE -- ÆLFRIC'S NOMINA HERBARUM AND THE PLANT REMAINS FROM ANGLO-SAXON WINCHESTER by DEBBY BANHAM -- 4 AGRICULTURE AND THE USE OF PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL WINCHESTER: THE DOCUMENTARY by DEREK J. KEENEEVIDENCE -- 5 GARDENS IN MEDIEVAL AND LATER WINCHESTER: THE CASTLE, WOLVESEY PALACE, AND AND EASTGATE HOUSE by BEATRICE CLAYRE and MARTIN BIDDLE -- 6 FIELD CROPS AND THEIR CULTIVATION IN HAMPSHIRE, 1200-1350, IN THE LIGHT OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE by JAN Z. TITOW -- PART III THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE |
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7 POLLEN ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS IN WINCHESTER by ERWIN ISENBERG and JANE M. RENFREW -- 8 THE IDENTIFICATION AND UTILIZATION OF WOOD IN EARLY WINCHESTER by SUZANNE KEENE -- 9 THE ROMAN PLANT REMAINS1 by PETER MURPHY -- 10 THE PLANT ECONOMY AND VEGETATION OF ANGLO-SAXON WINCHESTER by MICHAEL MONK -- 11 PLANT REMAINS AND AGRICULTURE IN NORMAN AND LATER MEDIEVAL WINCHESTER by FRANCIS J. GREEN -- 12 ROMAN AND POST-ROMAN MOSS FROM LOWER BROOK STREET by DORIAN WILLIAMS and JANE M. RENFREW -- 13 INSECT FAUNA FROM LOWER BROOK STREET by PETER J. OSBORNE |
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14 CONCLUSION by PATRICK OTTAWAY -- Concordance of Samples -- INDEX I: GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX 2: INSECTS AND PLANTS -- WINCHESTER STUDIES -- Back cover |
| Summary |
This wide-ranging study describes the natural environment of Winchester and its immediate surroundings from the late Iron Age to the early post-medieval period. Historical and archaeological evidence consider humanity's interactions with the environment, fashioning agricultural, gardening and horticultural regimes over a millennium and a half |
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Agriculture, Ancient -- England -- Wiltshire
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Wiltshire
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Agriculture, Ancient.
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Antiquities.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Winchester (England) -- Antiquities
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England -- Wiltshire.
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England -- Winchester.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781803270678 |
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1803270675 |
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