Principal authors: Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe, John R Smith, Colum Giles, with Nicholas Johnson. Editor: Peter Herring.
Ebook (PDF) published 2014.
Bodmin Moor is an upland landscape, heavily protected, farmed extensively and with an increasingly light touch, and enjoyed by many as a retreat from busier modern worlds. But it is also a place of industry and the home of busy agricultural communities. Well-preserved remains of streamworking, mining, quarrying, clay working, turf cutting and more intensive farming were subjected to archaeological survey and historical research as part of the wider-ranging survey partly covered in the first volume (on prehistoric and medieval landscapes). Supplementing the survey text are aerial photographs and detailed line drawings, mainly plans and elevations, but also reconstructions of sites and schematic representations of processes as well as large-scale maps of key areas.
Author(s): Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe, John R. Smith, Colum Giles, Nicholas Johnson
Publisher: English Heritage
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: XIV+212
City: Swindon
List of illustrations vi
List of tables viii
List of abbreviations viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
Summary xi
1. Background by Peter Herring 3
2. Survey method and sources by Peter Herring 7
3. Resources by Adam Sharpe 15
4. Mining by Adam Sharpe 29
5. Quarrying by Peter Herring 83
6. China clay by John R Smith 101
7. Turf by Peter Herring 117
8. Other uses and activities by Peter Herring 127
9. Agriculture by Peter Herring and Colum Giles 139
10. Industrial settlement and public amenities by Peter Herring 163
11. Transport and communications by John R Smith 171
12. Recommendations for further work by Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe and John R. Smith 181
Appendix: List of mine sites by Adam Sharpe 187
Bibliography 193
Glossary by Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe and John R Smith 197
Index 204
