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Chapman, Evan M.

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“…2.The inner and outer enclosures of the six ‘concentric’ fortlets currently known: Old Burrow (top left), Ide (top right); Martinhoe (middle left), Stoke Hill (middle right), Pomeroy Wood (bottom left), and Cemlyn (bottom right). ( After Fox and Ravenhill 1966 ; Griffith 1984 ; Fox and Ravenhill 1959 ; Salvatore 2011 ; Chapman 2016 )…”

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A Composite Coastal Cordon on Exmoor? Exploring Local Influence on First-Centurya.d.Fortlet Use

Symonds¹

2018

Britannia

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Exceptional aspects of the design and location of a pair of first-century fortlets on the Exmoor coast are explicable as a product of local influence. Previous explanations for the remote setting of these small posts and the distinctive defences securing them have focused on a signalling role, with the fortlets serving as a means to transmit messages to naval vessels patrolling the Bristol Channel. Instead, both the landscape setting and articulation with local settlement patterns imply that these installations strengthened pre-existing measures to counter coastal raiding. Parallels between this variant fortlet design and settlement morphology in the South-West peninsula suggest that the army co-opted an indigenous architectural style. The two fortlets could act as components of what was effectively a composite coastal cordon, built on collaboration between the Roman military and the local population.

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“… 85 Fox and Ravenhill 1959; Griffith 1984, 17; Salvatore 2011; Chapman 2016, 289. If Vellow is a Roman fortlet it would constitute a seventh example of the technique.…”

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A Composite Coastal Cordon on Exmoor? Exploring Local Influence on First-Centurya.d.Fortlet Use

Symonds¹

2018

Britannia

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Medieval Commercial Sites: As Seen Through Portable Antiquities Scheme Data

Oksanen¹,

Lewis²

2020

Antiq. J.

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This paper explores some 220,000 medieval objects recorded in the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) online database of archaeological small finds through Geographic Information System analysis of their relationship with contemporary market sites. First, an overview of the contents of the PAS database is presented in terms of its spatial and ‘object type’ distribution. Second, the relationship of the medieval finds data against documentary evidence of commercial activity is investigated at a national level. Finally, PAS data is contextualised in its historical landscape context through case studies. It is argued that the distribution of PAS finds on the national scale can be linked with patterns of commercial activity, and that while rural and urban finds scatters have distinguishing trends, the countryside population enjoyed access to a range of sophisticated metalwork culture; also, that certain assemblages can be analysed statistically to yield new data and perspectives on local historical development.

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A Composite Coastal Cordon on Exmoor? Exploring Local Influence on First-Centurya.d.Fortlet Use

A Composite Coastal Cordon on Exmoor? Exploring Local Influence on First-Centurya.d.Fortlet Use

Medieval Commercial Sites: As Seen Through Portable Antiquities Scheme Data

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