The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

Chapter Eleven - Figure 11.6 The Pimperne Down round-house. Over 13 m in diameter. More than 200 trees were required for its c ...

Rural Life and Farming - can be used as a guide, the interior would have been richly adorned with brightly coloured hanging br ...

Chapter Eleven - replaced. This was achieved by raising the lintel of the porch free of the tenons, replacing the uprights and ...

Rural Life and Farming - zones would be the most likely if only one knew where to look. Indeed it is this last point which is ...

Chapter Eleven - woodland. There was, of course, the need to provide kindling and stores of firewood for the domestic hearth. ...

Rural Life and Farming - The fact that woodland has been managed, of course, does not necessarily give any indication of timbe ...

Chapter Eleven - There are alternatives to hazel which were also exploited and in a probably similar manner. Osier beds and po ...

Rural Life and Farming - planting. Not even then is the ploughing at an end. The planting of the more frost- susceptible crops ...

Chapter Eleven - mid-to late May to take out the secondary growth. After this time hoeing probably ceased for fear of damaging ...

Rural Life and Farming - wet ground, can die mysteriously! Folklore will take care of the reason. Nevertheless, these areas pr ...

Chapter Eleven - too well. If the straw is sickled off close to the ground and bundled into sheaves a considerable number of e ...

Rural Life and Farming - losing a fair proportion of the harvest because the ripe pods burst open and spill the seeds onto the ...

Chapter Eleven - pits is quite small. Given the average annual consumption of flour in a mixed diet as 60 kilos, supplies for ...

Rural Life and Farming - Harding, D.W., Blake, I.M. and Reynolds, P.J. (1993) An Iron Age Settlement in Dorset: excavation and ...

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CHAPTER TWELVE RESOURCES AND INDUSTRY --.... -- Peter S. Wells INTRODUCTION U nder 'resources' I consider the materials that Cel ...

Chapter Twelve - Figure n.I Map showing some of the principal sites mentioned in Chapters 12 and 13. which ornaments, vessels ...

o o ••• • • Resources and Industry - -. •• o 7 8 Figure 12.2 Distribution of late iron age grindstones in ...