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Romney Marsh: Coastal and Landscape Change Through the Ages

(ed. Antony Long, Stephen Hipkin and Helen Clarke), Oxford University Committee for Archaeology (Monograph 56), Oxford, 2002.

Price: £10.00 (reduced from £27.50)

Contents:

  1. The Holocene vegetation history of the Romney Marsh region (Martyn Waller)
  2. Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene environmental change in the Romney Marsh region: new evidence from Tilling Green, Rye (Martyn Waller and Jason Kirby)
  3. Palaeoenvironmental changes during the last 4000 years at Scotney Marsh, Romney Marsh, Kent: a multiproxy approach' (Chris Spencer and Wendy Woodland)
  4. Reconstructing Late Holocene intertidal environments and channel networks: a review of the role of Benthic Foraminfera biostratigraphy on Romney Marsh (John Evans and Jason Kirby)
  5. The evidence for Late Holocene foreland progradation and rapid tidal sedimentation from the barrier and marsh sediments of Romney Marsh and Dungeness: a geomorphological approach (Andy Plater, Paul Stupples, Helen Roberts and Caroline Owen)
  6. Romney Marsh: evolution of the historic landscape and its wider setting (Stephen Rippon)
  7. The late medieval 'antediluvian' landscape of Walland Marsh (Mark Gardiner)
  8. The Rumenesea Wall, Romney and Walland Marshes: a commentary (J.R.L. Allen)
  9. The purpose, construction and operation of a 13th-century watercourse: the Rhee, Romney Marsh, Kent (Jill Eddison)
  10. Land holding and the land market in a 15th-century peasant community: Appledore, 1400-1470 (Sheila Sweetinburgh)
  11. "To fasten itt upon his successors, heirs and owners of that howse … so longe as the world standeth": family identity and the Romney marshlands in early modern Kent (Mark Merry and Catherine Richardson)
  12. The worlds of Daniel Langdon: public office and private enterprise in the Romney Marsh region in the early-18th century (Stephen Hipkin)
  13. A 'particularly convenient and useful' arrangement: the symbiotic relationship between the agrarian economy of Romney Marsh and the surrounding region in the 18th century (Anne Davidson)

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Romney Marsh: Environmental Change and Human Occupation in a Coastal Lowland

(eds. Jill Eddison, Mark Gardiner and Antony Long), Oxford University Committee for Archaeology (Monograph 46), Oxford, 1998.

Price: £22.50

Contents:

1. The Evolution of Rye Bay and Dungeness Foreland: the Offshore Seismic Record Justin Dix, Antony Long and Richard Cooke

2. Holocene Barrier Estuary Evolution: the Sedimentary Record of Walland Marsh Christopher Spencer, Andrew Plater and Antony Long

3. The Vegetation History, Stratigraphy and Pollen Data for the Shirley Moor Region Deborah Long, Martyn Waller and Pat McCarthy

4. The Holocene Depositional History of Romney Marsh Proper Antony Long, Martyn Waller, Paul Hughes and Christopher Spencer

5. Catastrophic Changes: the Evolution of the Barrier Beaches of Rye Bay Jill Eddison

6. Medieval Rural Settlement and Economy at Lydd Luke Barber

7. The Farms of Canterbury Cathedral Priory and All Souls College Oxford on Romney Marsh, c. 1443-1545 Gillian Draper

8. Settlement Change on Walland and Denge Marshes, 1400-1550 Mark Gardiner

9. Land Occupation in the Level of Romney Marsh during the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries Stephen Hipkin

10. Death and Disease on Romney Marsh in the 17th to 19th centuries Mary Dobson

11. White Kemp Gutt c. 1700: A Time of Change? Gail Smith

12. Sheep-keeping and Lookers’ Huts on Romney Marsh Anne Reeves and David Eve

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Romney Marsh: The Debatable Ground

(ed. Jill Eddison), Oxford University Committee for Archaeology (Monograph 41), Oxford, 1995.

Price: £22.50

Contents:

1. Romney Marsh: the Debatable Ground Michael Tooley

2. The Morphology and Evolution of Denge Beach and Denge Marsh Andrew Plater and Antony Long, with contributions by Christopher Spencer, Richard DeLaCour and Frank Oldfield

3. A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of the ‘Midley Sand’ and Associated Deposits at the Midley Church Bank, Romney Marsh Antony Long and Jim Innes

4. The Proposed Northern Course of the Rother: a Sedimentological and Microfaunal Investigation Martin Wass

5. Romney Marsh: the Field-Walking Evidence Anne Reeves

6. The Medieval Houses of the Marsh: the Missing Evidence Sarah Pearson

7. Hope All Saints: a Survey and Discussion of the Ruins and Earthworks Maureen Bennell

8. Adaption and Investment in the Age of the Great Storms: Agricultural Policy on the Manors of the Principal Lords of the Romney Marshes and the Marshland Fringe c. 1250-1320 Anthony Gross and Andrew Butcher

9. Medieval Salt-Making and the Inning of Tidal Marshes at Belgar, Lydd Eleanor Vollans

10. Medieval Farming and Flooding in the Brede Valley Mark Gardiner

11. The Impact of Marshland Drainage on Rye Harbour, 1550-1650 Stephen Hipkin

12. Attempts to clear the Rother Channel, 1613-1624 Jill Eddison

13. Drainage of Romney Marsh and Maintenance of the Dymchurch Wall in the early 17th century Dorothy Beck

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41 Mermaid Street,
Rye,
East Sussex
TN31 7EU.

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