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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821554203321

Autore

Lane Alan

Titolo

Llangorse crannog : the excavation of an early medieval royal site in the kingdom of Brycheiniog / / Alan Lane, Mark Redknap

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78925-309-8

1-78925-307-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

930.1028

Soggetti

Archaeological surveying

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.5

Sommario/riassunto

The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from submerged palisade planks established its construction in the ninth century, and a combined off- and on-shore investigation of the site was started as a joint project between Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. The subsequent surveys and excavation (1989-1994, 2004) resulted in the recovery of a remarkable time capsule of life in the late ninth and tenth century, on the only crannog yet identified in Wales.