SUMMARY

This paper reports on new research into the previously poorly-documented post-medieval sarsen stone industry of southern England. Two significant centres of the trade are explored using complimentary methodologies. In Buckinghamshire, where a major quarry has been lost to redevelopment, archaeological features are mapped from historical aerial photographs and other remotely-sensed data. In Wiltshire, analytical earthworks survey at two quarries records different stone-working practices. The interpretation goes beyond a conventional industrial archaeological focus on commodity production, to examine the complexity of the relationships between people, materials and technology in three different taskscapes.

概括

本文报道了对英格兰南部中世纪后萨尔森石业的新研究，此前该行业的记录很少。使用互补的方法探索了两个重要的贸易中心。在白金汉郡，一个主要采石场因重建而消失，考古特征是根据历史航空照片和其他遥感数据绘制的。在威尔特郡，两个采石场的土方工程分析调查记录了不同的石材加工实践。这种解释超越了传统工业考古对商品生产的关注，考察了三种不同任务场景中人、材料和技术之间关系的复杂性。