01/06/2004French153, Includes 68 pages of plates, 6 pages of colour photographs, illustrated throughout with maps, plans, tables, figures, drawings and photographsS1235BAR International Series
Recherches sur les instruments aratoires et le travail du sol en Gaule Belgique
Written by André Marbach
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A volume of detailed research and summary into metal farming tools used in Gaul/Upper Germania from the Gallo-Romano period; indeed many of the types are still in use today. 199 finds are investigated and reconstructed to show the various techniquesof manufacture, use and efficiency. The new method of analysis has shown that ploughing equipment was capable of turning the soil in Gallia Belgica from the second century. Includes 8 colour plates of metallurgical analyses. An accompanying catalogueis provided by the same author in: BAR – S1236, 2004 “Les instruments aratoires des Gaules et de Germanie Superieure Catalogue des pièces métalliques” (ISBN 1 84171 595 6).
