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Brunning, Richard.

Title Somerset's peatland archaeology : managing and investigating a fragile resource : the results of the Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands (MARISP) Project / Richard Brunning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nigel Cameron, Gordon Cook, Paul Davies, Rownea Gale, W. Derek Hamilton, David Hogan, Julie Jones, Mark Jones, Harry Kenward, Annette Kreiser, Christine Locatelli, Peter Marshall, Vanessa Straker, Heather Tinsley, Cathy Tyers and Ian Tyers.

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Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, 2013.

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Contents	Introduction to the Project -- Methodology -- Trackways -- Platforms and Pile Alignments -- Lake Villages -- Medieval Causeway -- Preservervation and Environmental Change -- Research and Management Strategies -- Appendix 1: Key for habitat groups and scale of abundance for plant macrofossil analysis tables -- Appendix 2: Abbreviations for ecological codes and statistics used for interpretation of insect remains in text and tables -- Appendix 3: MARISP pollen assessment plates -- Appendix 4: MARISP plant macrofossil assessment figures -- Appendix 5: Troels-Smith stratigraphic descriptions.
Summary	The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors, the County Museum in Taunton Castle holds the largest collection of conserved prehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe, the Sweet Track (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the most complete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was the best preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK. This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project ( Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed the condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and county wetland strategies.
Subject	Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands Project.
	Peatlands -- England -- Somerset.
	Monuments -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- Somerset.
	Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- Somerset.
	Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Somerset.
	Somerset (England) -- Antiquities.
	Tourbières -- Angleterre -- Somerset.
	Monuments -- Conservation et restauration -- Angleterre -- Somerset.
	Lieux historiques -- Conservation et restauration -- Angleterre -- Somerset.
	Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Angleterre -- Somerset.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
	Antiquities
	Excavations (Archaeology)
	Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
	Monuments -- Conservation and restoration
	Peatlands
	England -- Somerset https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRhJk8kCBDJyQPp9GP3p
Other Form:	Print version: Brunning, Richard. Somerset's peatland archaeology. Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, 2013 9781842174883 1842174886 (DLC) 2013009161 (OCoLC)833146539
ISBN	9781782970668 (electronic bk.)
	1782970665 (electronic bk.)
	9781782970682 (electronic bk.)
	1782970681 (electronic bk.)
	9781842174883
	1842174886
Standard No.	40022473086
	AU@ 000070526195
	AU@ 000072391931