LEADER 02558 am 22003253u 450 001 9910367590803321 005 20200123 010 $a9781902806587 035 $a(CKB)4100000010106009 035 $a(OAPEN)1006741 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010106009 100 $a20200123d|||| uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 00$aLandscapes Decoded 210 $aHatfield$cUniversity of Hertfordshire Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (192) 311 $a1-902806-58-1 330 $aHow were the field boundaries created and cultivated by the farmers of prehistoric and Roman Britain transformed into the open fields of medieval England? Historians and archaeologists have posited a complete physical break between the field systems of Roman Britain and the common or open fields of medieval England. Susan Oosthuizen?s fascinating research into the landscape history of the Bourn Valley, just west of Cambridge (an area which has been intensively cultivated for at least the last 3,000 years), has uncovered preserved prehistoric field patterns in the medieval furlongs there ? startling in the context of ?champion? England. If it were possible to unravel the relationships between pre-open-field and open-field boundaries in the Valley between about 600 and 1100 AD, then a significant step forward might be taken in our understanding of the origins of medieval open-field systems in general. We might begin to understand the processes by which the fields, woods and pastures that developed over the prehistoric millennia and during the Roman centuries were organised into the completely new landscape of the medieval open fields. The unexpected discovery of what appears to be an 8th- or 9th-century proto-open-field pattern seems to indicate a fossilising of the process of development from prehistoric to medieval fields, which Susan Oosthuizen seeks to explain by examining the social, administrative and political contexts within which these changes took place. The newly uncovered evidence allows Oosthuizen to propose a new model for the introduction of common fields in England. - 606 $aCambridgeshire$2bicssc 606 $aSocial & cultural history$2bicssc 606 $aArchaeology by period / region$2bicssc 615 7$aCambridgeshire 615 7$aSocial & cultural history 615 7$aArchaeology by period / region 700 $aOosthuizen$b Susan$4aut$0889014 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367590803321 996 $aLandscapes Decoded$91986085 997 $aUNINA