{"product_id":"assessing-iron-age-marshforts","title":"Assessing Iron Age Marshforts","description":"Iron Age marsh-forts are large, monumental structures located in low-lying waterscapes. Although they share chronological and architectural similarities with their hillfort counterparts, their locations suggest that they may have played a specific and alternative role in Iron Age society. Despite the availability of a rich palaeoenvironmental archive at many sites, little is known about these enigmatic structures, and until recently, the only acknowledged candidate was the unusual, dual-enclosure monument at Sutton Common, near Doncaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts\u003c\/i\u003e considers marsh-forts as a separate phenomenon within Iron Age society through an understanding of their landscape context and palaeoenvironmental development. At the national level, a range of Iron Age wetland monuments has been compared to Sutton Common to generate a gazetteer of potential marsh-forts. At the local level, a multi-disciplinary case-study is presented of the Berth marsh-fort in North Shropshire, incorporating GIS-based landscape modelling and multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental analysis (plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe results of both the gazetteer and the Berth case-study challenge the view that marsh-forts are simply a topographical phenomenon. These substantial Iron Age monuments appear to have been deliberately constructed to control areas of marginal wetland and may have played an important role in the ritual landscape.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57311830016382,"sku":"NW9781789698633","price":40.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781789698633.jpg?v=1778584938","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/assessing-iron-age-marshforts","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}