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Cornwall’s Trans-Peninsular Route: Socio-Economic and Cultural Continuity across the Camel/Fowey Corridor - ‘The Way of Saints’ from the Roman period to AD 700

Mark Borlase 2020 © BAR Publishing
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The Camel and Fowey rivers incise deeply into Cornwall, nearly meeting in the middle. This book is a landscape study of the Camel/Fowey corridor which forms a natural trans-peninsular portage route across Cornwall, avoiding circumnavigating the notoriously hazardous Land’s End sea route. The author investigates the effect this route had on society through micro- and macro settlement studies involving an extensive programme of geophysical analysis. This has generated fresh insight into the socio-economic and continuity dynamics of this part of Cornwall, together with the interaction between Romans and the indigenous population. The findings explore socio-political influences in the Roman period and cultural continuity into the post-Roman period.
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Series
  • BAR British Series 2020
  • BAR 2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407354767 (paperback)
  • 9781407356181 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • B653
Subject
  • Metallurgy / Mining
  • Western Europe and Britain
  • Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
  • Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
  • Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Roman
  • British Isles
  • Late Antiquity and Byzantium
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Front Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Note on Conventions
  • 1: Research Scope and Context
    • Introduction
    • Research Scope and Context
      • Topographical Setting, Isolation – Insulation – Identity
      • Rationale Behind a Trans-Peninsular Route
      • Research Aims
      • General Objectives of the Study
  • Chapter 2: General Methodology and Approaches
    • Approaches
    • Toponymic Evidence
    • Methodology
      • The Hypothesis for a Route: Marine Environment v Overland Route
      • Tangible Evidence
      • Supporting Evidence and Secondary Sources
      • A Thematic Approach Through Settlement and Overview of Research Sites
      • Excavation
  • Chapter 3: Out on a Limb: The Geomorphology of Cornwall, the Atlantic Climatic Influence and the Archaeological Context of the Study Period
    • Introduction
      • The Geomorphology of Cornwall
      • Coastline Changes and Sea-Level Rises for the Camel and Fowey Estuaries
    • Cultural Aspects: Settlement Morphologies – a Discussion
      • Enclosures: Diverse Typologies
      • Socio-Political Dynamics and Identity in Settlement
      • Open Settlement
      • Roman Military Influence in Cornwall and the Corridor
      • Post-Roman Change in Settlement Pattern – Background to Social Change With Elements of Continuity Through Ceramics
      • Beach Sites
      • Christianity
      • Previous Archaeological Work
    • Major Sites Mentioned in this Study
      • Trethurgy
      • Carvossa
      • Kilhallon
      • Gwithian
      • Tintagel
    • Contemporary Inter-Trade Routes with Cornwall
      • Late Iron Age
      • Trade Routes in the Roman Period
      • Trade Routes in the Post-Roman Period
  • Chapter 4: The Camel and Fowey Corridor in Its Contemporary Setting: Tin, ‘Maritima’ and the Theory Underpinning a Cross-Peninsular Route
    • The Cassiterides: Cornwall in Late Prehistoric and Proto-Historic Times to ‘Invasion’ AD 43
    • Tin: The Contemporary Evidence
    • Naval Matters
    • Difficulties of Sailing the Celtic Sea and Wreck Evidence
    • Rounding the ‘Parte Occidentale’
    • Summary of Maritime Perspectives: Sea V Land – Validation of the Route Theory
  • Chapter 5: Camel and Fowey Corridor: Late Iron Age and Roman Periods
    • Introduction
    • Communications to and Across the Corridor: Signals of Evidence Through Fieldwork
      • All Roads Lead to Minerals
      • High Cliff
      • East Leigh
      • Pabyer Point
      • Sites in Common
    • Research Findings: Settlement and Roman Involvement in the Corridor
      • Kingswood Round
      • Lestow
      • Restormel
      • Nanstallon Fort
    • Monetary Systems, Economy and Coin Evidence Across the Corridor
    • Continuity and Change: Independence Through Obdurate Traditionalism or Economic and Peripheral Determinism and Latent Romanitas
  • Chapter 6: The Corridor as a Christianised Landscape: of Saints, Lanns, Dedications and Memorial Pillars
    • Introduction
    • Byzantine Connections
    • Continuity of Polity
    • Christianity’s Influence
    • Memorial Pillars
      • Stones Through Time: Enlightenment
    • Seaways of the Saints, Hagiographies and their Mark on the Landscape
      • Saints Through the Corridor
    • Sampsonis: Hagiography Considered, Lanow, St Sampson Church and Langorthou
    • Place-Name Distribution Analysis with Lann Elements and Saint Dedications
  • Chapter 7: East Camel Estuary Case Study: Settlement Sites, Continuity and Change in The Landscape
    • Introduction
    • Locational and Settlement Description
    • Notes on Fieldwork from The Settlement Study Sites
      • Carruan
      • Middle Amble
    • Daymer Bay and Hinterland
      • St Enodoc and Trebetherick
      • Trebetherick
      • Porthilly
      • Lanow
      • Tregays on The Fowey River
    • Discussion
    • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Discussion: Socio-Economic Dynamics, Settlement and Continuity
    • Site Maps
    • The Trans-Peninsula Land Route or the Longer Precarious Sea Passage?
    • Tangible Route Evidence
    • Evidence for Use of the Corridor as a Route and Exploitation of Resources
    • Settlement Development, Form and Place in the Landscape and Outside Influences to AD700
    • Population
    • Settlement Socio-Economic
    • Pushing Back the Boundaries: Current Perceptions Contradicted – Security Through Tin?
    • A Borderline Question: Roman Involvement and Romanitas
    • Roman Interaction Through Design
    • Absence of Roman Infrastructure, Continuity and Identity
    • Economy and Transition
    • Pottery Via the Atlantic Seaways: Tintagel’s Influence on the Fowey and Camel Corridor
    • The Decline of Pottery Imports in the Corridor: Precursor to Social Change?
      • Changes in Settlement and Social Structure
    • Early Christianity in the Corridor: What Can be Learnt From Fieldwork and Can a Correlation be Found to Early Literary Evidence?
  • Chapter 9: Conclusions: Exploring The Social Dynamics Behind a Trans-Peninsular Route
    • Roman Interaction
    • Socio-Economy
    • The Early Medieval Corridor and Christianity
    • Settlement
    • Continuity
    • The Corridor – Summary
    • Scope for Further Research
  • Bibliography
    • Websites
    • Ancient Sources
  • Back Cover
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