Upland Archaeology

Aughertree Fell: Cumbria

by Kate Lancelott Beddoes

A Non-invasive Archaeological Investigation into the Prehistory of Aughertree Fell.

Draft only.

This dissertation attempted to build on: a previous desk-based study of the published caucus by (Beddoes 2009);... more This dissertation attempted to build on: a previous desk-based study of the published caucus by (Beddoes 2009); previous artefactual studies by Longworth (1984) and Bellhouse (1992), and landscape studies by Bellhouse (1967), Higham (1978; 1982), Higham & Jones (1985), Bewley (1994) and the Skiddaw Mapping Project 2000 (SMP 2000).

The aim was to conduct a non-invasive study of Aughertree Fell during the prehistoric period by focusing on non-destructive techniques, drawing upon recent theories of prehistoric theories landscape and settlement, to understand better how people have dwelt over millennia on Aughertree Fell.

The methodologies used were: a museum-based study that photographs artefacts, and catalogues or makes notes from the paper archives held by Tullie House Museum in Carlisle; an aerial interpretive map and an unstructured walkover survey, with the aim of making a preliminary gazetteer of landscape features. The results were presented in each chapter, followed by varying degrees of discussion from the specific to the general.

The extent of the environs chosen for this study are bounded by tributaries of the River Ellen and based on Spratt’s (1981) model of Bronze Age estates (Kitchen 2001:113).

Errata:
p.3: Unlabelled black circle, bottom right corner of local environs map should read "Baggra Yeat" (tr. "Barrowgate").

p32-37, Figs.12-17: "Unknown" illustrations by Anne Hallam.

Peuplement, pastoralisme et modes d’exploitation de la moyenne et haute montagne depuis la Préhistoire dans le Parc national des Écrins

by GIAP Landscape Archaeology Research Group

Mocci, F.; Palet-Martínez, J.M.; Segard, M.; Tzortzis, S.; Walsh, K. 2006. 'Peuplement, pastoralisme et modes d’exploitation de la moyenne et haute montagne depuis la Préhistoire dans le Parc national des Écrins', in A. Bouet and Fl. Verdin (eds.) Territoire et Paysages de l'âge du Fer au Moyen-Age, Mélanges offerts à Philippe Leveau,197-212.

Movilidad ganadera entre las comunidades castreñas cantábricas el valle del Pigüeña (Asturias) como caso de estudio

by David González Álvarez

GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ, David (2011): Movilidad ganadera de las comunidades castreñas del occidente cantábrico: La cuenca del Pigüeña (Asturias) como caso de estudio, en OrJIA (eds.): Actas de las II Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA 2009), tomo I. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 147-156.

Resumen: Las pautas de movilidad ganadera pueden ser entendidas como una excelente herramienta interpretativa para... more Resumen: Las pautas de movilidad ganadera pueden ser entendidas como una excelente herramienta interpretativa para comprender los sistemas de poblamiento, territorialización y subsistencia de las comunidades prerromanas del Occidente cantábrico. Debido al aprovechamiento de zonas de pastos estivales, las zonas montañosas se poblaron con cierta densidad, desarrollándose procesos particulares en la construcción del paisaje sociopolítico y subsistencial. Se reconocen discursos materiales dirigidos a afianzar y reclamar el usufructo de las zonas de pastos por parte de los distintos grupos y en las distintas fases diacrónicas de la Prehistoria, en una perspectiva de tiempos largos. En el presente trabajo, se presentan sintéticamente algunas hipótesis de trabajo con el
apoyo de una serie de lecturas etnoarqueológicas que iluminarán la elaboración del discurso interpretativo.
Palabras Clave: Edad del Hierro, megalitismo, Arqueología del paisaje, movilidad ganadera, Occidente Cantábrico.
Abstract: Herding mobility can be understood as an excellent interpretive tool for understanding settlement, subsistence and territorialization patterns of pre-Roman communities in West Cantabrian area (North of Spain). Due to the use of summer pasture areas, mountains were populated with certain density and particular processes in the construction of socio-political and subsistencial landscape were developed up there. Material speeches are recognized aimed at strengthening and claiming the usufruct of the pasture areas by different groups and at different stages of Prehistory in a long durée perspective. In this paper, several working hypotheses which rely on some ethnoarchaeological readings will be presented synthetically. That will illuminate the interpretive discourse.
Keywords: Iron Age, megalithism, Landscape Archaeology, herding mobility, Western Cantabrian area (North of Spain).

Arqueología en áreas de montaña. Ganadería, movimientos pastoriles y cultura material

by David González Álvarez

GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ, David y Rodríguez Hernández, Jesús (2011): Arqueología en áreas de montaña. Ganadería, movimientos pastoriles y cultura material, en OrJIA (eds.): Actas de las II Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA 2009), tomo I. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 121-122.

Estratigrafia i evolució conceptual d'un paisatge de muntanya al massís del Garraf. La Massana-Rovirós-Termens

by GIAP Landscape Archaeology Research Group

Ejarque, A.; Orengo, H.A. & Agustín, J.M. 2008. “Estratigrafia i evolució conceptual d’un paisatge de muntanya al massís del Garraf: la Maçana - Rovirós -Térmens (Begues)” in J. Hernández, J. Grau y J. Melero (Coords.) V Trobada d’estudiosos del Garraf. Barcelona, Diputació de Barcelona: 137-146.

Impacto humano en un medio altimontano pre-pirenaico durante los últimos 1500 años. Análisis paleoambiental de una turbera alcalina

by GIAP Landscape Archaeology Research Group

Ejarque, A.; Julià, R.; Orengo, H.A.; Palet, J.M. & Riera, S. 2011. 'Impacto humano en un medio altimontano pre-pirenaico durante los últimos 1500 años. Análisis paleoambiental de una turbera alcalina' in V. Turu & A. Constante (Eds.) El cuaternario en España y áreas afines, avances en 2011. Actas de la XIII Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario. Asociación Española para el Estudio del Cuaternario (AEQUA): 81-84.

'Cambios ambientales altimontanos en los Pirineos orientales durante el Holoceno: el valle del Madriu-Perafita-Claror (Andorra). Estudio paleoambiental y arqueológico

by GIAP Landscape Archaeology Research Group

Riera, S.; Ejarque, A.; Miras, Y.; Orengo, H.A.; Palet, J.M. & Julià, R. 2011. 'Cambios ambientales altimontanos en los Pirineos orientales durante el Holoceno: el valle del Madriu-Perafita-Claror (Andorra). Estudio paleoambiental y arqueológico' in V. Turu & A. Constante (Eds.) El cuaternario en España y áreas afines, avances en 2011. Actas de la XIII Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario. Asociación Española para el Estudio del Cuaternario (AEQUA): 77-80.

Nine thousand years of human/landscape dynamics in a high altitude zone in the southern French Alps (Parc National des Ecrins, Hautes-Alpes)

by GIAP Landscape Archaeology Research Group

Walsh, K; Mocci, F. & Palet-Martinez, J.M. 2007. Nine thousand years of human/landscape dynamics in a high altitude zone in the southern French Alps (Parc National des Ecrins, Hautes-Alpes). Novemila anni di dinamiche umane e paesaggistiche in una zona d’alta quota nelle Alpi meridionali francesi (Parc National des Ecrins, Hautes-Alpes). Preistoria Alpina, 42: 9-22.

Les Pyrénées romaines, la frontière, la ville et la montagne

by GIAP Landscape Archaeology Research Group

Leveau, Ph.; Palet, J.M. 2010. 'Les Pyrénées romaines, la frontière, la ville et la montagne' Pallas, 82: 171-198

El poblamiento en los Pirineos occidentales catalanes ¿cambio o continuidad?. JIA 2010

by David Garcia

" published in ' Estract Crític Número 5, Especial Actas JIA 2010, Volum III', 2010"

In this paper we present our approach for research to verify the existence of different patterns of settlement in the... more In this paper we present our approach for research to verify the existence of different patterns of settlement in the high Pyrenean mountain areas, particularly in the Pallars (Lleida, Catalan Pyrenees Western)as well as providing the first results that confirm this hypothesis . To do this we have compared the works write by an anthropologist of the early twentieth century on lifestyles in the region with the archaeological record found in archaeological survey campaigns in the National Park Aigüestortes. The intention is to compare the archaeological register with the nomadic livestock model described in the ethnographic sources for try to infer changes in social practices throughout history.
Keywords:
Settlements, Pyrenean, Aigüestortes

El Parque Eólico Sierra de Carondio: Una oportunidad perdida para el conocimiento de la Prehistoria reciente cantábrica

by David González Álvarez

GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ, David (2010): “El Parque Eólico Sierra de Carondio: Una oportunidad perdida para el conocimiento de la Prehistoria reciente cantábrica”, Estrat Crític, 4: 75-88. Estrat Jove, Col·lectiu d'estudiants d'Arqueologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Abstract: In the Sierra de Carondio is one of the largest megalithic burial grounds in Asturias. It forms a complex of... more Abstract: In the Sierra de Carondio is one of the largest megalithic burial grounds in Asturias. It forms a complex of special interest, because it could offer new data about forms of seasonal settlement of megalith builders groups. The construction of a wind farm in this area serves to raise some reflections on Heritage Management and the relationship between Archeology and Society.

A survey of Lluest y Carn, north of Eisteddfa Gurig, Ceredigion/Powys border

by Iestyn Jones

Enigmatic upland site in Mid-Wales surveyed by Neil Phillips & Iestyn Jones (2005)  from Archaeology in Wales, Vol. 45  pp. 109-111.

Seymour, L,. (2005): Beyond the Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions on Shovel Down and Kes Tor, Dartmoor Devon, unpub MA Thesis, Institute of Archaeology, UCL

by Lorraine Seymour

This thesis developed existing approaches to remote-sensing in archaeology by evaluating the use of resistivity survey... more This thesis developed existing approaches to remote-sensing in archaeology by evaluating the use of resistivity survey on granite moorland.

Explaining the formation of the widespread enclosures that survive across Dartmoor, in southwest England, generally rests on the extensive research conducted into their chronology by Andrew Fleming in the 1970s and 80s. This work, which focused on surveying and partly excavating the alignments, found that the field systems were laid out as a uniform system of enclosure, over a single chronological horizon towards the mid 2nd millennium BC. However, subsequent investigations have highlighted evidence for their complex and deep-rooted development (Butler 1991-1997). Yet, its implications for the accepted view of these enclosures are poorly understood. Following this, recent work on field systems on Dartmoor (Brück et al 2005) has piloted a battery of additional recording techniques to investigate previously unknown field-system components. This research, which was conducted at Shovel Down (2003 and 2004), included the piloting of resistivity survey to investigate building or boundary remains concealed beneath the Moor's surface.

Expert opinion is generally negative about the usefulness of resistivity on granite, even though such claims are inadequately supported by field-testing. Consequently, the apparent success of the surveys offered an valuable counter-point to such views. Excavations in 2005 set out to test this. This document reports on these investigations and also evaluates the findings of the resistivity survey. It confirms that resistivity can provide useful extra information about underlying field-settlement systems in these landscapes. However, it also identifies limitations to the technique and approaches to its interpretation. In doing so, it is hoped that an important contribution is made to our understanding of landscape recording methods and resistance survey in particular.

Seymour, L (2009): Book Review of Fleming (2007) The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions (2nd Ed), Proc of the Prehistoric Society 2009

by Lorraine Seymour

A Post-Dissolution Monastic Site and its Landscape: Cillonydd on Mynydd Maen

by Robert Weeks

Gwent Local History 92 2002 pp.3-24

The view across the valley: seventeenth century relict 'infield' enclosures at Hafod Owen and Craig Pant-Glas, Mynydd Maen

by Robert Weeks

Gwent Local History 108, 2010 pp.3-21

Dickinson, S: Bryant's Gill, Kentmere: Another 'Viking Period' Ribblehead?

by Steve Dickinson

In: Baldwin, J R and Whyte, I D, The Scandinavians in Cumbria (The Scottish Society for Northern Studies: 1985): 83-8

A preliminary account of the Kentmere Archaeological Project (1981-4) which lays out the scope of the fieldwork... more A preliminary account of the Kentmere Archaeological Project (1981-4) which lays out the scope of the fieldwork programme and gives an interim statement regarding the archaeological excavation of the Viking Age structures at Bryant's Gill, citing one of an eventual three radiocarbon dates that fixed the the date range of the site.