Rhiannon Comeau is completing doctoral research into the early medieval Welsh landscape at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Her earlier research has been published in Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History and Archaeologia Cambrensis. She has a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to the estates, focal places and agricultural systems of the early medieval period. She is a committee member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group and a Trustee for the Cambrian Archaeological Association. Andy Seaman is senior lecturer in early medieval archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research focuses on Wales and western Britain, and he has particular interests in settlements and the agrarian landscape, networks of power, and the early Church. He has published widely in these areas, including major articles on Dinas Powys hillfort and the ‘multiple estate model’. He is engaged in a number of projects focused on South Wales, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Manifestations of Empire: Palaeoenvironmental Analysis and the End of Roman Britain.

It is an important book which makes available timely and updated results as well as significant new insights into the practice and development of Welsh agriculture in the medieval period. It will provide a solid foundation for future studies, and is welcomed as a major contribution to the subject.

• Acknowledgements List of figures Contributors 1. Introduction – Rhiannon Comeau and Andy Seaman The wider picture2. The Fields of Britannia: continuity and change within the early medieval landscape – Stephen Rippon 3. Resource management of seasonal pasture: some English/Welsh comparisons – Della Hooke 4. Changing perspectives on early medieval farming in Ireland – Meriel McClatchie, Finbar McCormick, Thomas R. Kerr and Aidan O’Sullivan Wales5. Living off the land in medieval Welsh law – Sara Elin Roberts 6. Medieval field systems in north Wales – Bob Silvester 7. Y Filltir Sgwar: mapping the history of local land in a Welsh heartland – David Austin 8. The practice of ‘in rodwallis’: medieval Welsh agriculture in north Pembrokeshire – Rhiannon Comeau 9. Landscape, settlement and agriculture in early medieval Brycheiniog: the evidence from the LlandaffCharters – Andy Seaman 10. Culture, climate, coulter and conflict: pollen studies from early medieval Wales – Tudur Davies Moving forward11. Welsh landscape history: notes from the edge – Andrew Fleming Glossary A general bibliography of key work on Wales Index

Rhiannon Comeau is completing doctoral research into the early medieval Welsh landscape at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Her earlier research has been published in Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History and Archaeologia Cambrensis. She has a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to the estates, focal places and agricultural systems of the early medieval period. She is a committee member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group and a Trustee for the Cambrian Archaeological Association. Andy Seaman is senior lecturer in early medieval archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research focuses on Wales and western Britain, and he has particular interests in settlements and the agrarian landscape, networks of power, and the early Church. He has published widely in these areas, including major articles on Dinas Powys hillfort and the ‘multiple estate model’. He is engaged in a number of projects focused on South Wales, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Manifestations of Empire: Palaeoenvironmental Analysis and the End of Roman Britain.

It is an important book which makes available timely and updated results as well as significant new insights into the practice and development of Welsh agriculture in the medieval period. It will provide a solid foundation for future studies, and is welcomed as a major contribution to the subject.

• Acknowledgements List of figures Contributors 1. Introduction – Rhiannon Comeau and Andy Seaman The wider picture2. The Fields of Britannia: continuity and change within the early medieval landscape – Stephen Rippon 3. Resource management of seasonal pasture: some English/Welsh comparisons – Della Hooke 4. Changing perspectives on early medieval farming in Ireland – Meriel McClatchie, Finbar McCormick, Thomas R. Kerr and Aidan O’Sullivan Wales5. Living off the land in medieval Welsh law – Sara Elin Roberts 6. Medieval field systems in north Wales – Bob Silvester 7. Y Filltir Sgwar: mapping the history of local land in a Welsh heartland – David Austin 8. The practice of ‘in rodwallis’: medieval Welsh agriculture in north Pembrokeshire – Rhiannon Comeau 9. Landscape, settlement and agriculture in early medieval Brycheiniog: the evidence from the LlandaffCharters – Andy Seaman 10. Culture, climate, coulter and conflict: pollen studies from early medieval Wales – Tudur Davies Moving forward11. Welsh landscape history: notes from the edge – Andrew Fleming Glossary A general bibliography of key work on Wales Index

Rhiannon Comeau is completing doctoral research into the early medieval Welsh landscape at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Her earlier research has been published in Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History and Archaeologia Cambrensis. She has a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to the estates, focal places and agricultural systems of the early medieval period. She is a committee member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group and a Trustee for the Cambrian Archaeological Association. Andy Seaman is senior lecturer in early medieval archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research focuses on Wales and western Britain, and he has particular interests in settlements and the agrarian landscape, networks of power, and the early Church. He has published widely in these areas, including major articles on Dinas Powys hillfort and the ‘multiple estate model’. He is engaged in a number of projects focused on South Wales, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Manifestations of Empire: Palaeoenvironmental Analysis and the End of Roman Britain.

It is an important book which makes available timely and updated results as well as significant new insights into the practice and development of Welsh agriculture in the medieval period. It will provide a solid foundation for future studies, and is welcomed as a major contribution to the subject.

• Acknowledgements List of figures Contributors 1. Introduction – Rhiannon Comeau and Andy Seaman The wider picture2. The Fields of Britannia: continuity and change within the early medieval landscape – Stephen Rippon 3. Resource management of seasonal pasture: some English/Welsh comparisons – Della Hooke 4. Changing perspectives on early medieval farming in Ireland – Meriel McClatchie, Finbar McCormick, Thomas R. Kerr and Aidan O’Sullivan Wales5. Living off the land in medieval Welsh law – Sara Elin Roberts 6. Medieval field systems in north Wales – Bob Silvester 7. Y Filltir Sgwar: mapping the history of local land in a Welsh heartland – David Austin 8. The practice of ‘in rodwallis’: medieval Welsh agriculture in north Pembrokeshire – Rhiannon Comeau 9. Landscape, settlement and agriculture in early medieval Brycheiniog: the evidence from the LlandaffCharters – Andy Seaman 10. Culture, climate, coulter and conflict: pollen studies from early medieval Wales – Tudur Davies Moving forward11. Welsh landscape history: notes from the edge – Andrew Fleming Glossary A general bibliography of key work on Wales Index