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Cadbury Castle, The Hillfort and Landscapes by Richard Tabor |
Andy B
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|  Posted 07-10-2008 at 19:01
The story of Cadbury Castle and its surrounding landscape from the Neolithic to the Post-Roman period.
Richard Tabor traces the conditions for the development of the Iron Age hillfort at Cadbury Castle, the violent suppression of its population in the first century AD and its major refortification in the post-Roman period.
Using the evidence from both the famous Alcock excavations of the 1960s as well as new evidence from the extensive survey of the surrounding landscape carried out by the South Cadbury Environs Project, this is the first book to deal with a hillfort within its landscape environment. The results are startling, and include some significant departures in interpretation from earlier studies of hillforts such as Danebury and Maiden Castle.
* A unique study of an Iron Age hillfort and its relationship with the surrounding landscape.
* Reports on the programme of regional survey excavations carried out by the South Cadbury Environs Project from 1992-2008.
* Re-interprets existing accounts of excavations of Cadbury Castle from 1966-1970.
* Presents new evidence from the Early Neolithic to Saxon periods, including ground-breaking discoveries from the Bronze and Early iron Age.
* Previously unpublished illustrations showing evidence of a massacre in the Roman period.
* Website at http://www.southcadbury.org.uk
Richard Tabor was born and raised in a village below Cadbury Castle. He participated in the ground-breaking excavation of the hillfort in 1966-70 and in 1992 co-founded the South Cadbury Environs Project. He continues this work as a research fellow with the University of Bristol. The author lives in Yeovil, Somerset.
Cadbury Castle
The Hillfort and Landscapes
Richard Tabor
To be published 3rd November 2008 at £17.99, paperback original
Available from all good bookshops, Amazon.co.uk or http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk
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chimera
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| Posted 08-10-2008 at 06:35
It's disturbing that Mt Tabor is charged with ground-breaking. Do you have any details on the new evidence that has been alleged, and this man's explanation about the dirt that has been thrown?
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