There are two aspects to this huge publication. It is firstly a comprehensive synthesis of the information from excavations and building surveys in and around Lincoln, which endorses some established ideas but also proposes exciting new ones: the ritual nature of the area in the late Bronze and Iron Age, and its effect on the Roman occupation; a Saxon settlement and market site; the layout of medieval markets around the ecclesiastical centre; the development of settlements on the valley floor; a concentration of early Dissenting communities within the city; and, the growth of industrial Lincoln from the 1840s onwards....Read more
There are two aspects to this huge publication. It is firstly a comprehensive synthesis of the information from excavations and building surveys in and around Lincoln, which endorses some established ideas but also proposes exciting new ones: the ritual nature of the area in the late Bronze and Iron Age, and its effect on the Roman occupation; a Saxon settlement and market site; the layout of medieval markets around the ecclesiastical centre; the development of settlements on the valley floor; a concentration of early Dissenting communities within the city; and, the growth of industrial Lincoln from the 1840s onwards. This review is extensively illustrated by lots of figures and photos and newly-drawn maps and plans. Behind the synthesis is LARA, the Lincoln Archaeological Research Assessment, a relational database of the city's archaeology, which is maintained by the city's Planning Department, and is included here in GIS form on a CD-Rom. For any spot within the city it will tell you what is known archaeologically and, more importantly, what questions need to be answered about the area. It is both a Research Assessment tool and a Planning tool.
The book is the last word in Urban Archaeological Assessment and it will be of interest to archaeologists and planners far beyond the boundaries of Lincoln.
The book is the last word in Urban Archaeological Assessment and it will be of interest to archaeologists and planners far beyond the boundaries of Lincoln.
- ISBN10 1842171070
- ISBN13 9781842171073
- Publish Date 1 June 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxbow Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English