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oapen-20.500.12657-503642021-08-13T02:48:03Z Landscape Plotted and Pieced Fowler, Peter excavation archaeology landscape history survey bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDL Landscape archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDA Prehistoric archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDM Medieval European archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DB British Isles::1DBK United Kingdom, Great Britain::1DBKE England::1DBKEW South West England::1DBKEWW Wiltshire This book presents the results of 39 years of study of the two Wiltshire parishes of Fyfield and Overton Down. The aim of the project, using a diverse range of research methods, from archaeological excavation and experimental archaeology through the study of environmental and documentary evidence to the non-invasive techniques of geophysics and air photography, was to elucidate how and when the landscape came by its present appearance. The author draws three illuminating conclusions from this investigation. First, very little, if any, of this landscape is now "natural": it has been created by the agricultural activities of successive communities over the last 6,000 years. Second, the nature of this "artefact" has been, and continues to be, influenced by the geology, hydrology, soils and climate of the area. Finally, the principal land-use features of the present landscape were established at particular times over the last four millennia, and that what has come to be seen as a quintessentially "English" landscape was in fact set some 1,500 years ago. 2021-08-12T18:35:52Z 2021-08-12T18:35:52Z 2000 book ONIX_20210812_9780854312764_16 0953-7163 9780854312764 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50364 eng Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London application/pdf n/a SAL_RR_vol_64.pdf www.sal.org.uk/publications Society of Antiquaries of London 10.26530/20.500.12657/50364 10.26530/20.500.12657/50364 d42419c2-5275-411b-8855-aed87bed3f71 9780854312764 64 325 London open access
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This book presents the results of 39 years of study of the two Wiltshire parishes of Fyfield and Overton Down. The aim of the project, using a diverse range of research methods, from archaeological excavation and experimental archaeology through the study of environmental and documentary evidence to the non-invasive techniques of geophysics and air photography, was to elucidate how and when the landscape came by its present appearance. The author draws three illuminating conclusions from this investigation. First, very little, if any, of this landscape is now "natural": it has been created by the agricultural activities of successive communities over the last 6,000 years. Second, the nature of this "artefact" has been, and continues to be, influenced by the geology, hydrology, soils and climate of the area. Finally, the principal land-use features of the present landscape were established at particular times over the last four millennia, and that what has come to be seen as a quintessentially "English" landscape was in fact set some 1,500 years ago.
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