Landscape Plotted and Pieced : Landscape History and Local Archaeology in Fyfield and Overton, Wiltshire / P. J. Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, P. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Historical geography.

Landscape archaeology.

England--Wiltshire.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Landscape Plotted and Pieced

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Society of Antiquaries of London, 2000.

Summary:

This study summarises key primary evidence, and synthesises and discusses matters arising, from the detailed investigation of the landscape of two parishes in Wiltshire, England, over the last 50 years.

Contents:

Note on Appendix 1 and the project archive pt.

I. The Evidence and its Assessment.

1. A landscape and its setting.

2. Aerial photography and cartography.

3. Methodologies: theory and practice pt. II. A Landscape and its Interpretation.

4. The northern downland: Overton Hill, The Ridgeway and 'Headlands'.

5. The northern downland: Lockeridge Down to Manton Down.

6. The northern downland: Overton Down and Down Barn in Pickledean.

7. The northern downland: Fyfield Down and Wroughton Mead.

8. The valley and its settlements: West Overton.

9. The valley and its settlements: East Overton.

10. The valley and its settlements: Lockeridge.

11. The valley and its settlements: Fyfield.

12. The southern upland: denes, down and woodland.

13. The southern upland: Shaw and East Wansdyke pt.

III. Synthesis and Discussion.

14. Environmental history.

15. An archaeology of a Wessex landscape.

16. Themes in a Wessex landscape.

17. A once and future landscape: issues and objectives

App. 1. The archive

pp. 2. Layer numbers and descriptions used in Chapters 5 to 7.

Notes:

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