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Roman Field-System Earthworks in the Birklands and Belhaugh Hays, Nottinghamshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2017

Steve Malone
Steve Malone*
Affiliation:
York Archaeological Trust (Trent & Peak, Nottingham)smalone@yorkat.co.uk
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Abstract

Processing and analysis of LiDAR data in Nottinghamshire has identified the survival of earthwork field-systems beneath woodland in some of the oldest established parts of Sherwood Forest. The morphology and alignment of these field-systems strongly suggest that they represent a survival of the late Iron Age and Roman brickwork-plan field-systems of North Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire with considerable potential to elucidate the history of abandonment of these fields and the establishment of Sherwood Forest.

Keywords

Sherwood ForestLiDARbrickwork-plan fieldsRoman field-systemearthworksNottinghamshire
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Shorter Contributions
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Britannia , Volume 48 , November 2017 , pp. 298 - 304
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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