The Transformation of Coastal Wetlands: Exploitation and Management of Marshland Landscapes in North West Europe During the Roman and Medieval PeriodsCoastal wetlands form some of the major landscapes in northwest Europe and provided a challenging environment for the communities that lived there. This is the first study of the human development of that landscape during the Roman and medieval periods. |
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Models for the reclamation of coastal marshes | 152 |
Medieval saltern mound north of Horse Eye on the Pevensey Levels | 158 |
evidence contained within the boundary clauses of early medieval charters | 159 |
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Abbey acres agricultural alluvium appears arable Archaeologia Cantiana areas of marshland backfen Besteman briquetage Cambridgeshire Canvey Island Car Dyke Chapter coast coastal barrier coastal marshes coastal wetlands construction Count Alan creeks cultivation ditches Domesday Dorset drainage dryland economic eleventh century embanked enclosure environment evidence example excavations expansion exploitation extensive fen-edge Fenland Figure fish freshwater Gwent Levels Hist Holland intertidal Iron Age land landscape late Lincolnshire London major manors marshland Netherlands North Kent North Somerset Levels North West Europe northern Netherlands parish pasture peat Pevensey Levels place-names pottery proto-Rother Reaney reclamation recolonization region relative sea level Rippon river Rodwell Roman Britain Roman period Romano-British Romney Marsh Romney Marsh proper salt production salterns saltmarsh sea wall settlement Severn Estuary sheep Silvester 1988 South East South Holland suggests tenth century thirteenth century tidal twelfth century unreclaimed villas Walland Marsh western Netherlands wetlands Yoke Sewer