Astrid Caseldine
Biographic Data
| ID | 5638237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astrid Caseldine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Caseldine |
| SIGNATURE | CASELDINE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Neolithic Farming and Wild Plant Exploitation in Western Britain
The introduction of agriculture is a key defining element of the Neolithic, yet considerable debate persists concerning the nature and significance of early farming practices in north-west Europe. This paper reviews archaeobotanical evidence from 95 Neolithic sites ( c . 4000–2200 cal bc ) in Wales, focusing on wild plant exploitation, the range of crops present, and the significance of cereals in subsistence practices. Cereal cultivation practic…
Archaeological and environmental investigation of three prehistoric field systems in Gwynedd, north-west Wales
Cwm Cilio: Field system from the north-west Prehistoric field systems are, by their nature, extensive and often slight and intangible structures, most easily recognized when they are enclosed by walled, banked or ditched boundaries. The effects of many centuries of subsequent land use mean that many have been destroyed and those that remain complete and unmodified are of great archaeological value. This is the case even in north-west Wales, despi…
Humans and Landscape
Human activity had a significant impact on the landscape of Wales during the Iron Age and into the Romano-British period which is reflected in the palaeoenvironmental record. The effect on woodland is demonstrated in the pollen record which indicates clearance and regeneration episodes but an overall trend towards an increasingly agricultural landscape. Detailed information about crop and animal husbandry is provided by plant macrofossil and anim…
Iron Age Enclosed Settlements in West Wales
This paper presents the results of several years' research on late Iron Age enclosed settlements in west Wales. Geophysical survey was conducted on 21 sites and three of these, Troedyrhiw, Ffynnonwen, and Berry Hill, were part-excavated. Most sites examined were heavily plough-damaged, but results of the surveys and excavations demonstrated that substantial archaeological remains survive. Approximately 60 enclosed settlements lay in the core stud…
Short Dykes in Powys and their Origins
A Neolithic Wetland Site at Abercynafon, Talybont, South Wales
This paper presents the results of an integrated archaeological and palaeoecological investigation following the discovery of waterlogged worked-wood in a small boggy hollow on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons in south Wales. Analysis of the pollen, radiocarbon and dendrochronological evidence suggests the main phase of activity at the site involved local clearance of the primary oak forest in the early 3rd millennium BC. Later activity at…
A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Sediments from the Prehistoric Mine of Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, mid-Wales
Glandy Cross
Excavations at the Glandy Cross monumental complex during 1991 and 1992 formed part of an integrated programme of evaluation, rescue, and research by Dyfed Archaeological Trust (DAT). Enclosures, pit circles, standing stones, and cairns were excavated and their environs systematically surveyed. Radiocarbon dates show the monumental complex to have been constructed between c. 2190–1530 cal BC. However, the earliest activity at the site may date to…
Excavations within the Medieval Town at New Radnor, Powys, 1991–92
Excavations just inside the main West gate of the town, a plantation of probably the later twelfth century, confirm that parts of the town that were intensively occupied in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were abandoned as the settlement shrank and diminished in status from the later fifteenth century onwards. The earliest buildings, founded on earth-fast posts appear to have been replaced by ones of sill-beam construction during possibly…
A Middle Bronze Age Round-house at Glanfeinion, near Llandinam, Powys
Small-scale rescue excavations during the course of pipeline construction have revealed a single Middle Bronze Age round-house, ring-ditch, and pits on a lowland site in the upper Severn valley with associated radiocarbon determinations which suggest a date within the range 1400–1170 cal BC. Associated finds include a large assemblage of charred naked barley and plain and decorated vessels of cordoned, bucket, and barrel urn traditions, together …
Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Gwynedd
The discovery of evidence to suggest that copper ore was exploited at the Great Orme on a considerable scale in prehistory is of great significance in our understanding of the development of metalworking technology in the British Isles. In the past, the apparent absence from the archaeological record of a contemporaneous native mineral source for the production of copper and copper alloy artefacts during the Bronze Age has led to the assumption t…
The Excavation of Two Cairns and Associated Features at Carneddau, Carno, Powys, 1989–90
The complete excavation of one and the partial excavation of a second bronze age structured cairn are described. The excavations provided important evidence for the construction sequence of the cairns and Welsh bronze age funerary practices. A series of radiocarbon dates was obtained for the collared urns associated with the cairns
Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon
J. David Zienkiewicz, J. Hillam, Edward Besly, B. M. Dickinson, P. V. Webster, Susan A. Fox, S. Hamilton-Dyer, A. E. Caseldine, P. A. Busby, Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon: The Legionary Museum Site 1983-5, Britannia, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 27-140
Plas Gogerddan, Dyfed
At Plas Gogerddan, evidence was discovered for human presence from the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. up to the present day. Numerous pits and post-holes were excavated around a standing stone; one of these pits was dated to the tenth-fifteenth centuries B. c. To the west of the standing stone, three ring-ditches were constructed and used in the first millennium B.C.; in association with these ring-ditches were three iron age crouched buria…
Excavations at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed
Excavations of sites spanning the Beaker to early Roman periods at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed, are described. The sites are in an area of blown sand which enhanced their preservation and led to the separation of several horizons. The earliest is a buried soil beneath the blown sand which contained Mesolithic to Bronze Age artefacts. At site A, there was a roundhouse associated with Early Bronze Age pottery and dated to 1620±70 and 1400±70 BC uncal.,…
Excavations at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed
Excavations of sites spanning the Beaker to early Roman periods at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed, are described. The sites are in an area of blown sand which enhanced their preservation and led to the separation of several horizons. The earliest is a buried soil beneath the blown sand which contained Mesolithic to Bronze Age artefacts. At site A, there was a roundhouse associated with Early Bronze Age pottery and dated to 1620±70 and 1400±70 BC uncal.,…
A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Sediments from the Prehistoric Mine of Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, mid-Wales
Plas Gogerddan, Dyfed
At Plas Gogerddan, evidence was discovered for human presence from the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. up to the present day. Numerous pits and post-holes were excavated around a standing stone; one of these pits was dated to the tenth-fifteenth centuries B. c. To the west of the standing stone, three ring-ditches were constructed and used in the first millennium B.C.; in association with these ring-ditches were three iron age crouched buria…
Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Gwynedd
The discovery of evidence to suggest that copper ore was exploited at the Great Orme on a considerable scale in prehistory is of great significance in our understanding of the development of metalworking technology in the British Isles. In the past, the apparent absence from the archaeological record of a contemporaneous native mineral source for the production of copper and copper alloy artefacts during the Bronze Age has led to the assumption t…
Glandy Cross
Excavations at the Glandy Cross monumental complex during 1991 and 1992 formed part of an integrated programme of evaluation, rescue, and research by Dyfed Archaeological Trust (DAT). Enclosures, pit circles, standing stones, and cairns were excavated and their environs systematically surveyed. Radiocarbon dates show the monumental complex to have been constructed between c. 2190–1530 cal BC. However, the earliest activity at the site may date to…
The Excavation of Two Cairns and Associated Features at Carneddau, Carno, Powys, 1989–90
The complete excavation of one and the partial excavation of a second bronze age structured cairn are described. The excavations provided important evidence for the construction sequence of the cairns and Welsh bronze age funerary practices. A series of radiocarbon dates was obtained for the collared urns associated with the cairns
Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon
J. David Zienkiewicz, J. Hillam, Edward Besly, B. M. Dickinson, P. V. Webster, Susan A. Fox, S. Hamilton-Dyer, A. E. Caseldine, P. A. Busby, Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon: The Legionary Museum Site 1983-5, Britannia, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 27-140
A Middle Bronze Age Round-house at Glanfeinion, near Llandinam, Powys
Small-scale rescue excavations during the course of pipeline construction have revealed a single Middle Bronze Age round-house, ring-ditch, and pits on a lowland site in the upper Severn valley with associated radiocarbon determinations which suggest a date within the range 1400–1170 cal BC. Associated finds include a large assemblage of charred naked barley and plain and decorated vessels of cordoned, bucket, and barrel urn traditions, together …
Neolithic Farming and Wild Plant Exploitation in Western Britain
The introduction of agriculture is a key defining element of the Neolithic, yet considerable debate persists concerning the nature and significance of early farming practices in north-west Europe. This paper reviews archaeobotanical evidence from 95 Neolithic sites ( c . 4000–2200 cal bc ) in Wales, focusing on wild plant exploitation, the range of crops present, and the significance of cereals in subsistence practices. Cereal cultivation practic…
Iron Age Enclosed Settlements in West Wales
This paper presents the results of several years' research on late Iron Age enclosed settlements in west Wales. Geophysical survey was conducted on 21 sites and three of these, Troedyrhiw, Ffynnonwen, and Berry Hill, were part-excavated. Most sites examined were heavily plough-damaged, but results of the surveys and excavations demonstrated that substantial archaeological remains survive. Approximately 60 enclosed settlements lay in the core stud…
Archaeological and environmental investigation of three prehistoric field systems in Gwynedd, north-west Wales
Cwm Cilio: Field system from the north-west Prehistoric field systems are, by their nature, extensive and often slight and intangible structures, most easily recognized when they are enclosed by walled, banked or ditched boundaries. The effects of many centuries of subsequent land use mean that many have been destroyed and those that remain complete and unmodified are of great archaeological value. This is the case even in north-west Wales, despi…
Excavations at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed
Excavations of sites spanning the Beaker to early Roman periods at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed, are described. The sites are in an area of blown sand which enhanced their preservation and led to the separation of several horizons. The earliest is a buried soil beneath the blown sand which contained Mesolithic to Bronze Age artefacts. At site A, there was a roundhouse associated with Early Bronze Age pottery and dated to 1620±70 and 1400±70 BC uncal.,…
Plas Gogerddan, Dyfed
At Plas Gogerddan, evidence was discovered for human presence from the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. up to the present day. Numerous pits and post-holes were excavated around a standing stone; one of these pits was dated to the tenth-fifteenth centuries B. c. To the west of the standing stone, three ring-ditches were constructed and used in the first millennium B.C.; in association with these ring-ditches were three iron age crouched buria…
The Excavation of Two Cairns and Associated Features at Carneddau, Carno, Powys, 1989–90
The complete excavation of one and the partial excavation of a second bronze age structured cairn are described. The excavations provided important evidence for the construction sequence of the cairns and Welsh bronze age funerary practices. A series of radiocarbon dates was obtained for the collared urns associated with the cairns
Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon
J. David Zienkiewicz, J. Hillam, Edward Besly, B. M. Dickinson, P. V. Webster, Susan A. Fox, S. Hamilton-Dyer, A. E. Caseldine, P. A. Busby, Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon: The Legionary Museum Site 1983-5, Britannia, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 27-140
Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Gwynedd
The discovery of evidence to suggest that copper ore was exploited at the Great Orme on a considerable scale in prehistory is of great significance in our understanding of the development of metalworking technology in the British Isles. In the past, the apparent absence from the archaeological record of a contemporaneous native mineral source for the production of copper and copper alloy artefacts during the Bronze Age has led to the assumption t…
A Middle Bronze Age Round-house at Glanfeinion, near Llandinam, Powys
Small-scale rescue excavations during the course of pipeline construction have revealed a single Middle Bronze Age round-house, ring-ditch, and pits on a lowland site in the upper Severn valley with associated radiocarbon determinations which suggest a date within the range 1400–1170 cal BC. Associated finds include a large assemblage of charred naked barley and plain and decorated vessels of cordoned, bucket, and barrel urn traditions, together …
Excavations within the Medieval Town at New Radnor, Powys, 1991–92
Excavations just inside the main West gate of the town, a plantation of probably the later twelfth century, confirm that parts of the town that were intensively occupied in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were abandoned as the settlement shrank and diminished in status from the later fifteenth century onwards. The earliest buildings, founded on earth-fast posts appear to have been replaced by ones of sill-beam construction during possibly…
Glandy Cross
Excavations at the Glandy Cross monumental complex during 1991 and 1992 formed part of an integrated programme of evaluation, rescue, and research by Dyfed Archaeological Trust (DAT). Enclosures, pit circles, standing stones, and cairns were excavated and their environs systematically surveyed. Radiocarbon dates show the monumental complex to have been constructed between c. 2190–1530 cal BC. However, the earliest activity at the site may date to…
A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Sediments from the Prehistoric Mine of Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, mid-Wales
A Neolithic Wetland Site at Abercynafon, Talybont, South Wales
This paper presents the results of an integrated archaeological and palaeoecological investigation following the discovery of waterlogged worked-wood in a small boggy hollow on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons in south Wales. Analysis of the pollen, radiocarbon and dendrochronological evidence suggests the main phase of activity at the site involved local clearance of the primary oak forest in the early 3rd millennium BC. Later activity at…
Short Dykes in Powys and their Origins
Iron Age Enclosed Settlements in West Wales
This paper presents the results of several years' research on late Iron Age enclosed settlements in west Wales. Geophysical survey was conducted on 21 sites and three of these, Troedyrhiw, Ffynnonwen, and Berry Hill, were part-excavated. Most sites examined were heavily plough-damaged, but results of the surveys and excavations demonstrated that substantial archaeological remains survive. Approximately 60 enclosed settlements lay in the core stud…
Archaeological and environmental investigation of three prehistoric field systems in Gwynedd, north-west Wales
Cwm Cilio: Field system from the north-west Prehistoric field systems are, by their nature, extensive and often slight and intangible structures, most easily recognized when they are enclosed by walled, banked or ditched boundaries. The effects of many centuries of subsequent land use mean that many have been destroyed and those that remain complete and unmodified are of great archaeological value. This is the case even in north-west Wales, despi…
Humans and Landscape
Human activity had a significant impact on the landscape of Wales during the Iron Age and into the Romano-British period which is reflected in the palaeoenvironmental record. The effect on woodland is demonstrated in the pollen record which indicates clearance and regeneration episodes but an overall trend towards an increasingly agricultural landscape. Detailed information about crop and animal husbandry is provided by plant macrofossil and anim…
Neolithic Farming and Wild Plant Exploitation in Western Britain
The introduction of agriculture is a key defining element of the Neolithic, yet considerable debate persists concerning the nature and significance of early farming practices in north-west Europe. This paper reviews archaeobotanical evidence from 95 Neolithic sites ( c . 4000–2200 cal bc ) in Wales, focusing on wild plant exploitation, the range of crops present, and the significance of cereals in subsistence practices. Cereal cultivation practic…
Archaeology (14 works) · Geology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Geology (9 works) · History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Excavation (8 works) · Radiocarbon dating (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works)