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Publication Date: Early Summer 2008

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Summary:

This comprehensive and up-to-date book reviews the archaeology of Mendip both chronologically and thematically. This is the first publication of its kind to be devoted to the archaeology of this important region. Based upon the proceedings of a two-day conference held at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells, Somerset, this volume has as its focus the archaeology of the Mendip Hills and its environs.  Around twenty contributors present the results of new research and new ideas about the rich archaeological sequence of the region, a sequence stretching back half a million years. 

Contributors

• Jim Hanwell: The mapping and making of the Mendip landscape

• Paul Davies: Assessing the environmental history of Mendip: a palaeoecological perspective

• Roger Jacobi and Andrew Currant: The Late Pleistocene mammalian palaeontology and archaeology of Mendip.

• Jodie Lewis: On Top of the World: The Mesolithic and Neolithic use of the Mendip Plateau

• David Mullin: Barrows and Bronzes:  The Bronze Age on Mendip

• Ian Powlesland: East Mendip, cropmarks, field survey and the Iron Age.

• Abigail Bryant: Iron Age Cave Use on Mendip: a Revaluation

• Malcolm Todd: Roman Mining of Galena at Charterhouse on Mendip in the 1^st century AD

• Peter Leach: Romans on the Fosse Way

• Albert Thompson: Praedium on Mendip?              

• Michael Costen: Early settlement around the Mendips; place-names and local history

• Nick Corcos: Chew and Chewton: a pre-conquest river estate north of Mendip

• James Bond: The Acquisition and Exploitation of Monastic Holdings in the Mendip Region

• Penny Stokes: The Post-Medieval Landscape of Mendip

• Don Brown: Mendip Starfish

• Chris Richards: Beyond the Hillfort: Unfamiliar Aspects of Prehistoric and Later Times on Worlebury

• Vince Russett: Archaeology for the people. Mendip, CHERT and other stories

• Hannah Firth and Krystyna Truscoe: The Aggregate Landscape of Somerset: Predicting the Archaeological Resource

• Richard Brunning: A view from below: the wetland setting of the Mendips