Hi Stefan

Meybe this will be useful:

M. Kustra 2012; Rozplanowanie i zasięg średniowiecznych Pobiedzisk, "Studia Lednickie", 11: 59-74.

http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Studia_Lednickie/Studia_Lednickie-r2012-t11/Studia_Lednickie-r2012-t11-s59-74/Studia_Lednickie-r2012-t11-s59-74.pdf

Best Regards

Maciej Wawrzczak

Hi Maciej,

many thanks for that paper which is a very interesting study on the early developement of the town of Pobiedziska. But what I'm looking for are papers on the former fields around the towns and villages. What one would call "off-site archaeology" in the Palaeolithic. 

The spreading of pottery across manured plots is described in this article:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301486248_Archaeological_evidence_for_agrarian_manuring_Studying_the_time-space_dynamics_of_agricultural_areas_with_surface-collected_off-site_material

But what I'm looking for are maps actually showing this scatters. And I'm looking for advice how to do fieldwalking and GPS-recording of the shards efficiently.

Best regards,

Stefan

Chapter Archaeological evidence for agrarian manuring: Studying the ...

Hi Stefan, we published study about medieval field systems, where we study manuring scatters for dating and as one factor for estimation of the intensity of field systems use. It is diachronic view in recent pasture grassland (but on former fields). It could be usefully for comaprison: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280550820_Origin_and_development_of_long-strip_field_patterns_A_case_study_of_an_abandoned_medieval_village_in_the_Czech_Republic

Article Origin and development of long-strip field patterns: A case ...

Hi Jaromír,

thank you for the reference. Your article is helpful, but I still look for a maps, in which the pottery scatters are mapped (shards represented by dots or density of shards per area by 'shades of grey'?).

Best regards,

Stefan

Dear Stefan,

there are a few short contributions on pottery scatters resulting from medieval manuring:

C. Wohlfarth, Hutungen - Siedlungsanzeiger für mittelalterliche    Wüstungen. Arch. Rheinland 1995 (Köln 1996) 126 f. https://www.academia.edu/18632140/Hutungen_-_Siedlungsanzeiger_f%C3%BCr_mittelalterliche_W%C3%BCstungen._Arch._Rheinland_1995_K%C3%B6ln_1996_126f

C. Reichmann, Untersuchungen zum historischen Wirtschaftsland. Arch. Rheinland 2003 (Stuttgart 2004) 187-189

C. Reichmann, Archäologisches zur historischen Feldflur am Beispiel der Krefelder Ortsteile Hüls und Fischeln. In: C. Zangs (Hrsg.), Spurensuche im Barock. Beiträge zur Archäologie und Geschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts am Niederrhein. Katalog Neuss 2005 (Neuss 2005) 71-77

So far it looks like manuring happened on a very intensive scale in Close proximity to the settled area. So we might be able to detect the house gardens in the back Yard Areas:

Ch. Keller, Prospektion im Rheinland – zur Erkennbarkeit eisenzeitlicher und mittelalterlicher Siedlungen. 25 Jahre Archäologie im Rheinland 1987-2011 (Stuttgart 2012) 20-23

For a more general overview on recording find scatters during field walking:

I. Wessel, C. Wohlfarth, Archäologische Forschungen auf der Rheinbacher Lößplatte. Rhein. Ausgr. 62 (Mainz 2008) 15 ff.

Kind regards,

Christoph

Dear Christoph,

many thanks for your list of references. The paper by Christine Wohlfahrt helps me because of the classification of find scatters by quantification. Very interesting is the idea to use the Tranchot Maps to localize pastures (pâturage) and to relate them to the find scatters of ceramic. I will also have a look on the other references.

Kind regards,

Stefan

Stefan, look on this article, where Ondřej Malina is mapping medieval sherds (around isolated church) related to Kozojedy village in Central Bohemia. Chapter in book is with English summary. The problem is you cannot directly distinguish between manuring clusters and presence of sourcing sunken features. Send me email on benes.jaromir@gmail. com, where I can recommend you other literature from CZ..

https://www.academia.edu/3472328/Lidar_a_interpretace_historick%C3%A9ho_antropogenn%C3%ADho_reli%C3%A9fu_v_z%C3%A1zem%C3%AD_dvou_kostel%C5%AF_na_%C4%8Cernokostelecku

Dear Jaromír,

the article by Ondřej Malina is a source of inspiration in various aspects. Beginning from mapping the finds from fieldwalking per 50 x 50 squares, looking for hollow ways using Lidar, and again, as in the paper recommended by Christoph Keller, to make use of historical maps. Many thanks! I'm going to write you.

Kind regards,

Stefan

Dear Stefan, You can see p.79 fig.13 in this chapter of a book I recently published with my students. It presents the results of an experience of systematic collecting of off-site pottery I realized in the plain of Limagne at the end of the 90's. Best wishes. Frédéric Trément

Trément dir. 2011-2013 : Trément F. dir. (2011-2013) Les Arvernes et leurs voisins du Massif Central à l’époque romaine. Une archéologie du développement des territoires. Revue d’Auvergne. Tome 1 : t.124-125, n°600-601, 2011 : 512 p. Tome 2 : t.127, n°606-607, 2013 : 450 p.

Dear Frédéric, many thanks for your book chapter. In addition to the methodical considerations the information about indications for manuring in Roman times are helpful for me. Best wishes, Stefan

Dear Stefan, Except my own works,  i can advise you to have a look on the work of Richard Jones (University of Exeter), a great specialist of medieval manuring. He directed the publication of a book "Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives, Ashgate Publishing, 2012" and published an article in 2004 especially dedicated to the mapping of archaeological evidences of medieval manuring "Signatures in the soil: The use of pottery in manure scatters in the identification of medieval arable farming regimes, Archaeological Journal, n°161, 2004, p.159-188". Best regards, Nicolas.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00665983.2004.11020574#.V1AISb5zPGM

Article Signatures in the Soil: The Use of Pottery in Manure Scatter...

Article Manure matters: Historical, archaeological and ethnographic ...

Dear Nicolas, many thanks for pointing me to the work of Richard Jones. I will try to get the book and found the article on his page at academia. Best regards, Stefan

Dear Stefan,

Do you know Christopher Dyer's work at Leicester University? See his bibliographic references at:

http://www.biab.ac.uk/people/1362  

You will find that Richard Jones is at Leicester University, also. 

The two of them, C Dyer and R Jones, edited Deserted villages revisited [published Hertfordshire : Univ of Hertfordshire Press, 2010] - which is available as an e-book.

They also co-edited an e-publication on Whittlewood which may be useful to you, though I haven't looked into it in detail. See:

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue19/jones_toc.html

Kind regards,

Margaret

PS. Have you looked at the series of volumes on Wharram Percy, published over many years? Full references and sources listed at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wharram-percy-deserted-medieval-village/history/sources/

Dear Margaret,

many thanks for the references. In particular "Deserted Villages Revisited"seems to contain a great deal of useful informations about manure scatters.

Best wishes,

Stefan