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Windgather Press (2013), Paperback, 416 pages
Description
An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who lived there. It is possible that abbot Dunstan, one of the great reformers of tenth century monasticism directed the planning of the village. The Shapwick Project examined the development and history of an English parish and village over a ten thous
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Absolutely wonderful study of ten thousand years of landscape history and material culture of the Somerset village of Shapwick. Much of the work was carried out by the inhabitants of the village itself.
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416 p.; 9.6 inches
ISBN
1905119453 / 9781905119455