The Roman Occupation of the Central Fenland

Potter, Ted; Johns, Catherine; Hall, David; Hassall, M. W. C.; Shotter, David

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“…In general there is good agreement (e.g. the various maps and contributions in Phillips, 1970;Potter, 1981) although two observations require comment. Simmons (1978) indicates two Bronze Age finds further seaward than the stratigraphic evidence discussed in this paper which would indicate the location of supra-tidal environments.…”

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“…Hallam concludes that the main transgression was not underway until the 5th-7th centuries AD. Potter (1981) presents further evidence which indicates that agricultural development of the silt Fenland was possible from c. 50-100 AD onwards but showed that the third century flooding was caused by freshwater drainage off the uplands rather than a marine incursion.…”

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Flandrian sea‐level changes in the Fenland. II: Tendencies of sea‐level movement, altitudinal changes, and local and regional factors

Shennan

1986

J Quaternary Science

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Shennan, I. 1986 Flandrian sea-level changes In the Fenland II: Tendencifs of sea-level movement, altitiidina c hanges, and local and regional factors. loonid/ ol Quaternary Science, Vol. 1, pp. 155-1 79. ISSN 0267-81 79 ABSTRACT: Stratigraphic, micropalaeontologic and radiocarbon data show that since c. 6500 BP the Fenland has been influenced by 7 periods of positive sea-level tendencies and by 6 periods of negative sea-level tendencies. Despite the numerous problems associated with the reconstruction of past altitudes of sea level the periods of positive sea-level tendencies were clearly characterised by a rise in sea level, the development of transgressive overlaps and a landward movement of the coastline. The periods of negative sea-level tendencies were characterised by the development of regressive overlaps, a seaward movement of the coastline and a reduced or negative rate of sea-level rise. The various altitudinal errors do not permit the incontrovertible distinction of periods of falling sea levels. All changes within the Fenland were not synchronous and local factors influenced theexact nature of each sea-level indicator. Dominant regional and local factors have been identified for different areas and different time periods. The chronological and spatial characteristics of the sequences within the Fenland are bestexplained by a palaeocoastline without supratidal barriers controlling sedimentation.The data indicate an average crustal subsidence in the Fenland of 0.9 m/l 000 years since c. 6500 BP and the pattern of positive and negative tendencies of sea-level movement is also seen in the chronologies for north west England and north east Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science

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Flandrian sea‐level changes in the Fenland. II: Tendencies of sea‐level movement, altitudinal changes, and local and regional factors

Shennan

1986

J Quaternary Science

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“…New luxury construction took place in town houses and rural villas (Frere 1987). One presumes that areas such as the central Fenland particularly flourished during this period because of wool production for the textile trade (Potter 1981). The illusion of the expansion of the material culture in Roman Britain of the late third century camouflaged wider social and economic problems that brought its economy to a profound collapse within a century (Reece 1980).…”

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People and Things: Power in Early English Development

Biddick

1990

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Where there are people, it is said, there are things. Does this mean that when you admit the former you must also admit the latter? Time will tell. (Beckett 1965:292).Debate over the rise of agrarian capitalism in Europe has established the historiographic chronology, locus, and conceptualization of European development. Proponents of contending schools (the "commercial" or the "political") have focused on the late medieval through early modern period in England as the crucial time and place of the transformation but argue whether agrarian capitalism derived from economic or political structures (Ashton and Philpin 1985).' Neither school has questioned the common methodology of mapping social and cultural transformation onto a structural matrix. Steps taken by historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists to decenter the European narrative of development have faltered at this same structuralist dilemma.Medieval historians have traditionally favored the twelfth century as the transformative moment of European development, which in Marc Bloch's cultural model divides the First and Second Feudal Age and marks the separation of people and things, status and tenure, oath and contract, consumption and production (Bloch 1961(Bloch , 1966. The European economy "took-off' (Georges Duby's words) at this time, as the urban economy gained dominance over the countryside (Duby 1974:270), and Fernand Braudel has cautioned that the study of European capitalism has to begin not with the early modern period but with a European world economy that took shape during the twelfth century (Braudel 1984:57;Abu-Lughod 1988).

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“…I n the second century what wealth there was achieved expression only in the acquisition of imported pottery and of the occasional fine bronze or exotic bauble. Even coinage is scarce at some sites although, through the region as a whole, a monetary economy did operate (Shotter, 1981).…”

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The Roman site of Stonea, Cambridgeshire

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Jackson²

1982

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The role of the East Anglian Fenlands in the history, andparticularly the agrarian history, of Roman Britain has long been a matter of considerable discussion. Air photography and jield surveys have recently added much to our knowledge of the Fens in Earb Iron Age and Roman times. David Hall, the Fenland jield o$cer in the Cambridge planning department, suggested, in 1978, Stonea as an important Roman site. Excavations in 1980 showed that Stonea, at present a desolate spot in the dreary Fen landscape, was occupied in the pre-Roman Iron Age, and' then became, in Roman times, the headquarters of a provincial procurator administering, perhaps, the whole of the southern Fens as Imperial Land. Readers of this article will appreciate the authors' sub-heading : ' A battle, a sanctuary and an administrative centre at Stonea. Dr

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The Roman Occupation of the Central Fenland

Cited by 11 publications

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Flandrian sea‐level changes in the Fenland. II: Tendencies of sea‐level movement, altitudinal changes, and local and regional factors

Flandrian sea‐level changes in the Fenland. II: Tendencies of sea‐level movement, altitudinal changes, and local and regional factors

People and Things: Power in Early English Development

The Roman site of Stonea, Cambridgeshire

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