Roger Leech & Pamela Leech 
The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean 

New research on the archaeology of the colonial landscapes of the Caribbean.


This volume brings together new research on the archaeology of the colonial landscape of the Caribbean. It focusses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the British Caribbean: notably Bermuda, Jamaica, Florida, Barbados, Antigua, and especially St. Kitts and Nevis. Chapters cover a wide range of landscapes – domestic, military and industrial – and interests, including the archaeology and architecture of African-Caribbean slavery and emancipation, European settlements, sugar production, burial grounds, cartography, fortifications and trade.


ROGER LEECH, President of the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology from 1999-2002, was formerly Head of Archaeology for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and is now Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.


PAMELA LEECH, formerly an archaeologist with English Heritage, was the first-phase editor for the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology’s volume
Cities in the World and Roger Leech’s 2014 English Heritage publication,
The Town House in Medieval and Early Modern Bristol.


CONTRIBUTORS: Todd M. Ahlman, David Barker, Jon Brett, Phil Dunning, Geoff Egan, William C. Found, David Higgins, Carter L. Hudgins, Gillian Hutchinson, Nigel Jeffries, Eric Klingelhofer, Roger Leech, Louis P. Nelson, Philippe Oszuscik, Robert A Philpott, Gerald F. Schroedl

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface – Roger Leech

1. Caribbean Colonial Cartography: Exploring the Paper Landscape – Gillian Hutchinson

2. Tropical Similarities found in Military Barracks, Hospitals and Other Structures from the Caribbean to the British Florida Parishes – Philippe Oszuscik

3. ‘Come Hell or High Water’: Architectural Responses to Natural Disaster in the Early British Caribbean – Louis P. Nelson

4. London, Capital of Empire – Some Archaeological Reflections – Geoff Egan and Nigel Jeffries

5. Changing Technology in the West Indian Sugar Industry, 16501920: A Visual Introduction – Phil Dunning

6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies – Gerald F. Schroedl

6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies – Todd M. Ahlman

7. An Archaeological Survey of Sugar Plantations in St Kitts, 2004 and 2005 – Robert Philpott and Jon Brett

8. The St Kitts Scenic Train: Journey into an Island’s Heritage – William C. Found

9. Jamestown, Nevis: Fact, Fiction, and Fable – Carter L. Hudgins and Eric Klingelhofer and Roger Leech and David Higgins

10. Observations on the European Ceramics from Nevis – David Barker

11. A Caribbean Context for the World-System: A Case Study in 17th and 18th Century Economic and Social Interdependency – Marco Meniketti

12. The Colonial Landscape of Mountravers and Adjacent Plantations – Roger Leech

Circa l’autore

ROGER LEECH, President of the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology from 1999-2002, was formerly Head of Archaeology for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and is now Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.