Peat reclamations of the Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Iron Age:Drainage ditch systems and settlement patterns in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands

In the northern Netherlands, the fringes of the peat area adjacent to the salt marshes, with their well-known terp set-tlements, have been reclaimed and settled since the middle of the Pre-Roman Iron Age. Over time, settlement gradually expanded deeper into the peat area, until the reclaimed peat lands, like most of the salt marshes, were abandoned over the course of the Late Roman Iron Age. In the province of Friesland, two large areas with traces of these early peat reclamations have recently been researched using a combination of modern digital elevation maps and old aerial photographs dati... Mehr ...