The Conisbrough Estate and the southern boundary of Northumbria : environmental and archaeological evidence from a late sixth-/early seventh-century structure and a later enclosure ditch at Conisbrough, South Yorkshire

• Excavations close to the Anglo-Saxon church at Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, UK, revealed a plank-walled construction dated by dendrochronology to the late sixth or early seventh century. It is suggested that this formed part of a stock pond for fish, associated with an elite residence to which a partly surviving Anglo-Saxon church incorporating Northumbrian features is related. Environmental evidence shows a neglected wood pasture landscape associated with the infilling of a ditch which cuts through the structure. This is likely to be related either to a burh centred on the church or to a deer park established shortly after the Norman Conquest and associated with the castle.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- Archaeology (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Zoologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Zoology (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Multidisciplinär geovetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Geosciences, Multidisciplinary (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Palaeoentomology

boundaries

castle

Anglo-Saxon

Church

Environmental archaeology

dendrochronology

ditch

deer park

environmental archaeology

miljöarkeologi

History

historia

Entomology

entomologi

Quarternary Geology

kvartärgeologi

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