Landscape characterisation of Iron Age coins

Principal investigator: Stephen Rippon
Level: Personal research project

I am carrying out research into local and regional variation in landscape character in the Late Iron Age/Roman period through to the medieval periods in East Anglia and the South East Midlands (the pre 1974 counties of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex). This will involve an analysis of a wide range of traditional 'landscape' archaeology (settlement form, field bolundary patterns etc) as well as analysis of material culture and palaeoenvironmeental data. The first stage (that has prompted this request) is a desire to update and extend existing Iron Age coin distributions (eg Mark Curteis, 2006, in Essex Archaeology and History) as part of a discussion of late Iron age polities/pagi, and as such I need a greater level of spatial data than is available for many finds through the ordinary user's access. The distribution maps that I will be drawing, however, will show my study area (see above) on an A4 page, so there wont be any useful information for disruputatble users! I also wish to explore various blanks in the distribution of Irobn Age coins by mapping finds of Roman and medieval metalwork in order to see whether metal detectorists are active in those areas. This is a long term project that I would hope to submit as a book in around 2014.

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• Created: 12 years ago
• Created by: Daniel Pett