Water and wind power
| dc.contributor.author | Rynne, Colin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-07T11:24:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-07T11:24:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-01 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2018-09-03T10:47:16Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The inhabitants of most urban and rural communities in both Britain and Ireland during the later medieval period would have lived a relatively short distance from either a watermill or windmill. This chapter examines the most recent archaeological evidence for water- and wind-powered mills in later medieval Britain. The use of water power, in particular, was widespread in the later medieval period for a wide range of industrial activities. However, during this same period nearly all of the grain harvest was processed in either wind- or water-powered mills. The archaeological record also demonstrates a large degree of continuity, from the late Roman and early medieval periods, in the design of waterwheels and the mechanisms they actuated. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rynne, Colin (2018) 'Water and wind power', in Gerrard, C. and Gutiérrez, A. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 491-510. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.22 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.22 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 510 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780198744719 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 491 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/6734 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain | |
| dc.rights | © 2018, Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. | en |
| dc.subject | Watermill | en |
| dc.subject | Windmill | en |
| dc.subject | Dams | en |
| dc.subject | Weirs | en |
| dc.subject | Mill ponds | en |
| dc.subject | Millraces | en |
| dc.subject | Machinery | en |
| dc.subject | Millstones | en |
| dc.title | Water and wind power | en |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en |
