Silchester: The Landscape Setting of the Iron Age Oppidum and Roman City : From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages

Silchester: The Landscape Setting of the Iron Age Oppidum;and Roman City is the definitive report on the Silchester Environs Project, which combined extensive fieldwork and prospection to examine the Iron Age hinterland of;Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), its settlement pattern, economy and development. The landscape setting of the Iron Age;oppidum and Roman city of;Calleva was initially explored through analysis of the available aerial photography and LiDAR data over;c. 1000 km2. Focusing on a 50 km square centred on;Calleva, six locations with suspected later prehistoric enclosures were sampled by coring and excavation and accompanied by extensive programmes of radiocarbon dating and environmental, especially pollen, analysis. Phases of activity and/or settlement were followed by abandonment and the regeneration of the woodland. Neolithic and Bronze Age activity was identified, but the first permanent settlements appeared to be of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age date. The period with the most numerous

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