The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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... land ' , that is , land which could be cultivated to yield an arable crop sufficient to keep the cultivators above subsistence level as long as climatic conditions were right , the soil was kept well fertilised and there was a ...
... land ' , that is , land which could be cultivated to yield an arable crop sufficient to keep the cultivators above subsistence level as long as climatic conditions were right , the soil was kept well fertilised and there was a ...
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... land suffered accentuated population loss through the voluntary migration of peasants to larger and more flourishing villages nearby . By 1341 the tax record Nonarum Inquisitiones1 noted soil infertility and bad weather as the main ...
... land suffered accentuated population loss through the voluntary migration of peasants to larger and more flourishing villages nearby . By 1341 the tax record Nonarum Inquisitiones1 noted soil infertility and bad weather as the main ...
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... lands of central England , where the villagers could cultivate scattered strips of land , producing little more than subsistence crops of grain . The development and organisation of medieval field systems have been subjects of ...
... lands of central England , where the villagers could cultivate scattered strips of land , producing little more than subsistence crops of grain . The development and organisation of medieval field systems have been subjects of ...
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Abbey Anglo-Saxon Archaeol archaeological archaeological evidence archaeological excavation areas Barton Blount Bayeux Tapestry Benedictine Biddle buildings built centres Cistercian clay cloister cloth Cluniac construction countryside crofts deserted medieval villages discovered ditches documentary sources documentation early earthwork castles eleventh century English Essex example excavated evidence fifteenth century foundations fourteenth century GdaĆsk Goltho historical industry iron kilns King's Lynn known land late Lincolnshire London long-house M. W. Beresford manor manorial Mary Tanner Street masonry Medieval Archaeology Medieval Britain medieval England medieval towns methods Middle Ages moated sites monasteries monastic houses monks motte motte-and-bailey Norfolk Norman Northamptonshire Norton Priory parish church particularly peasant house period population post-Conquest pottery pre-Conquest Priory produced Reconstruction remains ring-work settlement St Mary Tanner stone structures surrounded surviving Sussex Tanner Street thirteenth century tiles timber tion tower twelfth century urban W. J. Rodwell walls Wharram Percy Winchester Yorkshire