‘Art And Toil’
The East Fen of Lincolnshire AD 700-1750
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21720232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I G Simmons (0000-0002-3637-4827, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-40 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscapes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-2035 • E-ISSN: 2040-8153 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14662035.2024.2442813 |
| OpenAlex | W4406593820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The East Fen of Lincolnshire was the most northerly of the virtually continuous stretches of freshwater wetland that reached almost to Cambridge in the south. It differed from the other fenlands in not being drained until the nineteenth century. It occupied a basin which had been flooded in late Roman times but thereafter colonised by a series of ecosystems, some of which were used as resources. This paper—and its on-line Supplementary Material—takes the period between about AD 700 and the advent of pumped drainage in the late seventeenth century, and for that interval it aims to chronicle the interactions between use by bordering communities and the biophysical components of water, plants and animals. The source materials are mostly printed, with the addition of a few informative documents, and the focus is on the landscape itself. To help readers unfamiliar with this area, the central paper has a mostly chronological sequence and is accompanied by eight Supplementary Material sections which enlarge upon particular aspects of the narrative. These include a Table which summarises the whole history of this Fen, and directions for a Google Earth-based transect across the landscape as shown in Street View
Art · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |