With contributions by Ann Carter, John Hampton, Peter Herring, Rob Iles, Jacqueline Nowakowski, the late R. W. Smith, and Cyril Wardale. Editor: Desmond Bonney.
First published 1994. Reprinted with amendments 2008. Ebook (PDF) published 2013.
Year-by-year encroachment in the 20th century for cultivation or tree-planting provided the stimulus for the most extensive survey ever undertaken of the archaeological monuments of Bodmin Moor, a previously little-disturbed landscape rich in surviving structural evidence of the many ways, from the Bronze Age to the post-medieval period, in which people settled and exploited the Moor and its surroundings. The survey is remarkable not only for the extent of the area examined, but also for the number of monuments newly identified in the course of the work. Supplementing the survey text are detailed line drawings, plans, aerial photographs and large-scale maps.
Author(s): Nicholas Johnson, Peter Rose
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: English Heritage
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: XVI+144
City: Swindon
List of illustrations vi
List of tables viii
List of abbreviations viii
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xii
Summary/Résumé/Zusammenfassung xiii
Notes on general maps by Peter Rose vi
1. Introduction by Nicholas Johnson 1
1. Setting and location 1
2. Topography and climate 2
3. Vegetational history 3
4. Vegetation and land use change 3
5. Past archaeological work by Peter Rose 4
2. Survey logistics by Nicholas Johnson 5
1. Background 5
2. Aims 5
3. Type and scale of survey 5
4. Study area 6
5. Organisation 6
6. Summary of remains surveyed 6
7. Survey statistics 6
3. Survey methodology by John Hampton 8
1. Introduction 8
2. Air survey by Ann Carter 8
3. Field survey, RCHME by Cyril Wardale 11
4. Field survey, CAU by Nicholas Johnson 15
4. The prehistoric landscape by Nicholas Johnson 24
1. Long cairns 24
2. Miscellaneous ritual monuments 26
3. Standing stones, standing stones in cairns, stone settings 29
4. Stone circles and stone rows 31
5. Cairns 34
6. Defended enclosures 46
7. Prehistoric huts 49
8. Settlements 55
9. CAU survey area by Peter Rose and Nicholas Johnson 65
10. Discussion 72
5. The historic landscape by Peter Rose 77
1. Introduction 77
2. Context and colonisation 77
3. Summer pasture 80
4. Deserted medieval settlements 83
5. Post-medieval buildings and settlements by Peter Herring and Jacqueline Nowakowski 98
6. Fields, cultivation, and the organisation of the landscape 100
7. Chronological summary of the main developments 114
6. The future - scheduling, management and presentation by the late R. W. Smith 116
1. Introduction 116
2. Analysis 116
3. Approaches to preservation 116
4. Scheduling 116
5. Management 117
6. Presentation 118
7. Conclusions 118
Addendum 1994 by Rob Iles 118
Appendix 1. Chronological summary of past archaeological work by Peter Rose 119
Appendix 2. Locations of cairns illustrated in Figs 23–6 120
Bibliography 121
Index by Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins 124
