Sarsen stone quarrying in southern England

• Katy A. Whitaker ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Reading

     University of Reading

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Post-medieval archaeology, ISSN 0079-4236, Vol. 57, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 143-176
• Idioma: inglés
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  • his paper reports on new research into the previously poorly-documented post-medieval sarsen stone industry of southern England. Two significant centres of the trade areexplored using complimentary methodologies. In Buckinghamshire, where a major quarry hasbeen lost to redevelopment, archaeological features are mapped from historical aerial photo-graphs and other remotely-sensed data. In Wiltshire, analytical earthworks survey at two quar-ries records different stone-working practices. The interpretation goes beyond a conventionalindustrial archaeological focus on commodity production, to examine the complexity of the rela-tionships between people, materials and technology in three different taskscapes