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Hanbury, Worcestershire: Settlement and Society in a Woodland Landscape (English Local History , 4th) Book
Local history has contributed more than any other field to the development of a wide range of techniques applied intensively to the understanding of historic and prehistoric ways of living. In this new study a range of archaeological and documentary techniques are combined to show how the land has been settled and cultivated over a period of more than 4000 years. The medieval and modern woodland landscape is shown not to be a survival of primeval forests but the end product of constant change. Periods of extensive cultivation have alternated with periods of retreat when the corn fields have reverted to wood and pasture. The layout of houses and fields has been related to the society of the woodlands, so this book is about serfs, poachers and alehouse keepers as well as the buildings in … read more...
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