Little Flanders beyond Wales : a landscape archaeological study of row settlements in the British Isles and the County of Flanders

This dissertation makes a contribution to the research on rural settlement landscapes in the County of Flanders and the south of Wales. During the high medieval period (tenth to mid-thirteenth centuries), the human impact on the landscape intensified and expanded to previously less reclaimed areas. For the County of Flanders, axes of exploitation and the ab nihilo plantation of new farms and row settlements as centres for the landscape reclamations, have been considered as important structuring aspects. Only few of such row settlements have been studied, but historical research indicates that... Mehr ...