Roman Field-System Earthworks in the Birklands and Belhaugh Hays, Nottinghamshire. (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Malone, Steve
• Is Part Of: Britannia. Volume 48(2017)
• Page Start: 298
• Page End: 304
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: Sherwood Forest, -- LiDAR, -- brickwork-plan fields, -- Roman field-system, -- earthworks, -- Nottinghamshire; Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman -- Periodicals; Romans -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 936.10305
• DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X17000046
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0068-113X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Processing and analysis of LiDAR data in Nottinghamshire has identified the survival of earthwork field-systems beneath woodland in some of the oldest established parts of Sherwood Forest. The morphology and alignment of these field-systems strongly suggest that they represent a survival of the late Iron Age and Roman brickwork-plan field-systems of North Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire with considerable potential to elucidate the history of abandonment of these fields and the establishment of Sherwood Forest.