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The Field Archaeology of the Salisbury Plain Training Area (Paperback)
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The Field Archaeology of the Salisbury Plain Training Area (Paperback)
Series: Archaeological Reports
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The Salisbury Plain Training Area has been in military ownership
since the late 19th Century. As a consequence the area has not
suffered the agricultural 'improvements' or urban developments that
characterise so much of the English countryside today. It remains
the largest tact of unimproved chalk downland in north-west Europe,
much of it now scheduled as an ancient monument in recognition of
its rich archaeological landscape, and is unparalleled anywhere
else in England. The archaeology bears witness to a number of major
changes in land use. While extensive Bronze Age barrow cemeteries
lie on the slopes of the downs, vast carpets of 'Celtic' fields
were laid out in the same areas, and this agricultural landscape
was in turn, superseded by one with an extensive system of
territorial divisions - the linear boundaries. Perhaps the most
remarkable survivals, however, are the eleven Romano-British
villages that have been identified and surveyed. These are
impressive sites in their own right but it is the aerial and
chronological completeness of this archaeological landscape that
makes it so important, for it is actually possible to trace the
ancient landscape from one village to another. Not since the work
of the 19th-century antiquarians, Sir Richard Colt Hoare and
William Cunnington, has the area had such detailed analysis. Using
a combination of survey techniques, this volume traces human
influence on the landscape from prehistoric times to the recent
military activities, and presents a synthesis of the results of
recent fieldwork.
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