Perches, Post-holes and Grids
Clair Barnes, Wilfrid Stephen Kendall

TL;DR
This paper investigates the hypothesis that Anglo-Saxon building layouts were based on grid-like planning using statistical analysis of archaeological images, providing evidence for underlying structural regularities.
Contribution
It develops statistical methods tailored to analyze diverse archaeological images, supporting the existence of structured planning in early medieval landscapes.
Findings
Statistical evidence of underlying grid structures in archaeological data
Confirmation of visual impressions of planning regularities
Methodology adaptable to various image types
Abstract
The "Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape" project (PEML) <http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/planningintheearlymedievallandscape/>, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, has organized and collated a substantial quantity of images, and has used this as evidence to support the hypothesis that Anglo-Saxon building construction was based on grid-like planning structures based on fixed modules or quanta of measurement. We report on the development of some statistical contributions to the debate concerning this hypothesis. In practice the PEML images correspond to data arising in a wide variety of different forms. It does not seem feasible to produce a single automatic method which can be applied uniformly to all such images; even the initial chore of cleaning up an image (removing extraneous material such as legends and physical features which do not bear on the…
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TopicsLand Use and Ecosystem Services · Tree-ring climate responses
