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Bath : a study of settlement around the sacred hot springs from the mesolithic to the 17th century AD : an archaeological assessment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: La Trobe-Bateman, Emily
Other Authors: Niblett, Rosalind
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Summaries in French and German.
Published: Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Bath.
Bath (England) > Antiquities.
Mesolithic period > England > Bath.
Bronze age > England.
Iron age > England.
Archaeology, Medieval > England.
Britons > England > Bath.
Romans > England > Bath.
Anglo-Saxons > England > Bath.
Table of Contents:
  • PART 1. Background and historical overview
  • The purpose and scope of this study
  • The topography of Bath and the surrounding area
  • The history of archaeological research in Bath
  • The nature of the evidence
  • PART 2. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. Early prehistoric period (8500-1000 BC)
  • The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age (1000 BC-AD 43)
  • The Romano-British period (1st-4th centuries)
  • The post-Roman period (5th-mid-7th centuries)
  • Saxon Bath (late 7th-late 11th centuries)
  • The medieval period
  • Bath in the 17th century
  • PART 3. SYNTHESIS AND ASSESSMENT. Introduction
  • The current state of knowledge and understanding
  • Assessment of importance and potential : a research agenda
  • Period-based research issues
  • Thematic research issues.