Scientific Dates for England's Field Systems

The ‘Scientific Dates for Field Systems in England’ project was completed during 2015-16 in a partnership between Historic England, the University of Sheffield and ArcHeritage, a commercial archaeological consultancy. The project’s aims were to: (a) produce a collated list of relevant scientific dates for field systems in England; (b) provide a constructive critique of fieldscape chronologies based on collated scientific dates; (c) recommend methodological enhancements and future research that arise from the project’s results. The project assessed the current understanding of the chronology of field systems of all periods in England. The focus of the work was on reviewing known dates for the activity of enclosure for agricultural purposes and aimed to review existing dates for fields of all periods drawn from published and unpublished sources. The project recorded 393 scientific dates from 120 excavated sites (‘site’ refers to the archaeologically investigated area, however large or small) using information from unpublished and published sources.<br>

‘英格兰田野系统科学年代项目’（Scientific Dates for Field Systems in England）于2015至2016年间完成，由英格兰历史遗产署（Historic England）、谢菲尔德大学与商业考古咨询机构ArcHeritage合作开展。本项目的目标为：(a) 汇编英格兰田野系统相关科学测年数据的完整名录；(b) 基于汇编的科学测年数据，对田野景观年代序列提出建设性评析；(c) 基于项目研究成果，提出方法学改进方向与未来研究建议。本项目评估了当前学界对英格兰各时期田野系统年代序列的认知水平，研究重点为梳理农业围垦活动的已知年代数据，旨在审阅来自已发表与未发表文献中各时期田野遗存的现有测年数据。本项目通过整合未发表与已发表资料，从120处考古发掘遗址（此处“遗址”指经考古调查的区域，无论规模大小）中收录了393项科学测年数据。