Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire

Eckardt, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-5624, Brewer, P., Hay, S. and Poppy, S. (2009) Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Britannia, 40 (1). pp. 65-98. ISSN 1753-5352 doi: 10.3815/006811309789786025

Abstract/Summary

This paper examines the landscape context of the Bartlow Hills, a group of large Romano-British barrows that were excavated in the 1840s but have been largely neglected since. GIS is employed to test whether it was possible to view the mounds from nearby roads, barrows and villas. Existing research on provincial barrows, and especially their landscape context, and some recent relevant applications of GIS are reviewed. We argue that barrows are active and symbolically charged statements about power and identity. The most striking pattern to emerge from the GIS analysis is a focus on display to a local rather than a transient audience.

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Item Type	Article
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Social Archaeology
Uncontrolled Keywords	BARTLOW; CAMBRIDGESHIRE; ROMAN BARROWS; ROMAN ROADS: ROMAN VILLAS; LANDSCAPE CONTEXT; GIS; VIEWSHED ANALYSIS
Publisher	Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
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