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Woodland in Roman Britain: Some Hypotheses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2017

Stuart Wrathmell
Stuart Wrathmell*
Affiliation:
Liversedge, West Yorkshirestuart.wrathmell@gmail.com
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Abstract

The recently published ‘Fields of Britannia’ project has lent a measure of support to the idea that the patterning of woodland and open land evident in the Anglo-Saxon period may in part have persisted since Roman times, if not before. This article explores the potential value of these woodland and open land contrasts in explaining the locations and distribution of a variety of Roman cultural material: coins, military installations and early road alignments.

Keywords

Roman Britain countrysidewoodlandcoin distributionsRoman roadsforts and fortressesDomesday Book
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Shorter Contributions
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Britannia , Volume 48 , November 2017 , pp. 311 - 318
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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