Lemon Valley, St Helena: an East India Company and British Colonial landscape in the South Atlantic

• Autores: Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs
• Localización: Post-medieval archaeology, ISSN 0079-4236, Vol. 57, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 58-81
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article presents the results of an historical and archaeological survey of Lemon Valley, in the South Atlantic island of St Helena. The valley was periodically used by 16th-century mariners during the early years of the Age of Discovery and permanently settled by the English East India Company from the 1660s. The survey reveals a palimpsest landscape which preserves extensive military and civilian ‘plantation’ remains. Together, these provide a rare insight into the character and evolution of the English settlement of the island from the late 17th century, through to the abandonment of the valley in the mid-20th century.