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Trouble at t'mill: industrial archaeology in the 1980s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C.M. Clark*
Affiliation:
Institute of Industrial Archaeology, Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, Ironbridge, Telford TF8 7AW

Extract

Despite the ‘archaeology’ in its name, industrial archaeology is a world of its own which barely figures in ANTIQUITY or the other general archaeology journals. A consistent trend in recent archaeology has been an interest in landscapes and the physical contexts of settlement, studies by survey rather than excavation of rich spot sites for their own sake. That landscape is usually rural, and its industry – mills, olive presses, or building-stone quarries – of a pastoral nature. Here, an approach is presented in that same spirit, as the archaeology of a more fully industrial landscape.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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