Living off the land: agriculture in Wales, c. 400-1600 AD

Abstract

a more general geographical approach and do not directly re-interpret Eastern Yorkshire evidence, but readers can make their own connections. The three papers interpreting aspects of the burial data are the ones that help to progress our understanding of the subject, as does the summarized excavation report on Pocklington. The landscape context of burials is overlooked, and reference to previous published work on this is a major gap of the volume. John Dent’s paper is an autobiographical insight into his ground-breaking excavations. Apart from those studying Iron Age burials of Eastern Yorkshire, the main audience for the volume will be for students of the Iron Age, funerary archaeology and/or specific finds specialisms. Like many edited conference proceedings, most readers will be those looking up a specific paper that is cited elsewhere or that appears on a reading list. I can see the volume being checked out of university libraries for courses where essays on the region’s Iron Age burials are set.