The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activity. Settlements on the edge of the Second Gravel Terrace were occupied throughout the Iron Age and Roman periods. Associated with the middle Iron Age settlement was a small cemetery of some 35 crouched inhumation burials. Further burials were made in the Roman period. The Roman settlement is marked by its ditched enclosures and small paddocks suggesting intensive stock management, although the presence of an extensive surrounding field system shows that arable agriculture was also intensive, at least in the early Roman period.

About the Author
Gill Hey is CEO of Oxford Archaeology with research interests in Neolithic Britain.

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"The volume, and its companions, provides a splendid addition to the existing series of reports on the archaeology of this area...[and] is of great importance" -- Barry C. Burnham Britannia



Book Information
ISBN 9781905905218
Author Gill Hey
Format Hardback
Page Count 655
Imprint Oxford University School of Archaeology
Publisher Oxford University School of Archaeology