The Saxon House: A Review and Some Parallels

Radford, C. A. Ralegh

doi:10.1080/00766097.1957.11735380

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“…The consistent sequence of stake and turf-built long houses in southwestern England suggests a connection with similarly built examples of the Migration Period from northern Europe (e.g. Tofting, Holstein (Radford 1957)). Nevertheless, they probably commence no earlier than the tenth century and Rahtz notes closer parallels with Scandinavian settlement configurations (1976, 84, 88 and 94).…”

Section: How Far Back Can Turf Building Be Traced?mentioning

confidence: 78%

Where Have all the Neolithic Houses Gone? Turf – an Invisible Component

Loveday

2006

Scottish Archaeological J

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The use of a currently invisible form of walling is suggested by the Neolithic structures at Claish, Balbridie and Balfarg. It is possible that this was turf. Historical, as well as archaeological, evidence is examined to clarify structural patterns associated with such material and its perceived advantages over wood. Its ready availability through the practice of shifting agriculture is postulated.

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Section: How Far Back Can Turf Building Be Traced?mentioning

confidence: 78%

Where Have all the Neolithic Houses Gone? Turf – an Invisible Component

Loveday

2006

Scottish Archaeological J

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“…The post-holes of these three groups contained the same range of plant remains, but possible hearth residues and daub fragments were more common from the larger structures. Radford 1957). These small rectangular structures, often with six, eight, or nine postholes, were quite common to the south and west of a line from the Rhine-Maas mouth to Miinster (Janke 1971, 14;Verwers 1972;Berg 1982).…”

Section: The European Evidencementioning

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Centralized Storage in Later Prehistoric Britain

Gent

1983

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Archaeological evidence for centralized storage facilities may provide useful information about the organization of prehistoric economies. In the background are a range of explanatory ideas. 'Redistribution' is a term which has been applied to the evidence from some British hillforts. Resources might be collected and then re-allocated through a permanent agency of co-ordination. They might be mobilized as tribute to elites as part of political strategy. This has been suggested for early British hillforts, and the evidence is reviewed. Much depends on the interpretation of the four-poster' structures at these sites as storehouses. A survey of these structures on British and continental sites strengthens this interpretation, and a further survey shows that, in Britain, disproportionate numbers of these structures are found at massively enclosed sites. A modified form of site catchment analysis suggests that some of the hillforts stored produce mobilized from an area which was greater than is likely to have been farmed directly from these sites. One possible inference is that resources were mobilized from subordinate settlements. It is suggested that stored grain was a critical commodity if rising populations and climatic change combined to increase the risk attached to the cereal harvest.

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“…However, negative stratigraphic units, which sum a significant amount of the material record, have largely been invisible until very recently, largely due to lack of knowledge of specific methodologies and of the scientific developments in other European regions (Hamerow, 2011). While this type of construction has been known in the Anglo-Saxon world from the 1930s (Leeds, 1936;Ralegh Radford, 1957), and in Germany and France from the 1960s (Chapelot and Fossier, 1980;Demolon, 1972;Donat, 1980), their existence in the Iberian Peninsula was only identified in the late 1990s (Vigil-Escalera, 1999), followed soon by the first typological studies on these constructions (Azkarate and Quirós Castillo, 2001;Vigil-Escalera, 2000).…”

Section: The Archaeological Evidence: the Samplementioning

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Early medieval household archaeology in Northwest Iberia (6<sup>th</sup>-11<sup>th</sup> centuries)

Tejerizo¹

2013

Arqueol. Arquitect.

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The Saxon House: A Review and Some Parallels

Cited by 11 publications

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Where Have all the Neolithic Houses Gone? Turf – an Invisible Component

Where Have all the Neolithic Houses Gone? Turf – an Invisible Component

Centralized Storage in Later Prehistoric Britain

Early medieval household archaeology in Northwest Iberia (6<sup>th</sup>-11<sup>th</sup> centuries)

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