“…Starting with Cyril Fox's seminal 1929 study, through to the 1950s, Antiquity published 29 articles on dykes (Figure 3). Crawford used the journal to promote research on linear earthworks, arguing they had been poorly served by previous scholarship yet were fundamental to narratives of past societies (Crawford 1931, 1953; Bowden 2001: 36). This view was espoused most eloquently by Fox (1929: 148): When one considers how exhaustive an effort was involved in the[ir] construction … and how profoundly their presence … influenced the economic, military, and political development of the communities whose boundaries they formed, one can realize how important it is … to determine the period of their construction and use.Figure 3.Graph showing research papers and book reviews focused on linear earthworks (dykes) in the journal Antiquity (prepared by Tom Moore).…”
In its early decades, Antiquity regularly featured the subject of linear earthworks that criss-cross the British landscape. Subsequently, however, discussion has been largely relegated to period-specific and local journals. As a result, interpretations of these imposing but often poorly dated earthworks have been drawn in the contrasting research traditions of later prehistory and the early medieval period. Here, the authors propose a comparative dialogue as a means for reinterpreting these landscape features, and as a lens through which to explore social complexity. Combined with advances in archaeometrical dating, this new approach promises to reinvigorate the study of some of Britain's largest archaeological monuments.
“…Starting with Cyril Fox's seminal 1929 study, through to the 1950s, Antiquity published 29 articles on dykes (Figure 3). Crawford used the journal to promote research on linear earthworks, arguing they had been poorly served by previous scholarship yet were fundamental to narratives of past societies (Crawford 1931, 1953; Bowden 2001: 36). This view was espoused most eloquently by Fox (1929: 148): When one considers how exhaustive an effort was involved in the[ir] construction … and how profoundly their presence … influenced the economic, military, and political development of the communities whose boundaries they formed, one can realize how important it is … to determine the period of their construction and use.Figure 3.Graph showing research papers and book reviews focused on linear earthworks (dykes) in the journal Antiquity (prepared by Tom Moore).…”
In its early decades, Antiquity regularly featured the subject of linear earthworks that criss-cross the British landscape. Subsequently, however, discussion has been largely relegated to period-specific and local journals. As a result, interpretations of these imposing but often poorly dated earthworks have been drawn in the contrasting research traditions of later prehistory and the early medieval period. Here, the authors propose a comparative dialogue as a means for reinterpreting these landscape features, and as a lens through which to explore social complexity. Combined with advances in archaeometrical dating, this new approach promises to reinvigorate the study of some of Britain's largest archaeological monuments.
“…(Chatwin 1982, 252-3) In many ways flying is the ultimate example of the way in which a change in modality can radically alter perspective (and see Aldred 2020 for further reflections on this point). From the early work of OGS Crawford and others (Bowden 2001) it became apparent that by seeing landscape from above, archaeologists and landscape historians could perceive aspects that were not apparent on the ground, be they ancient field boundaries or buried remains that appear visible on the surface only from above, as crop-or soilmarks. Drawing on techniques developed by the military to detect what was hidden or camouflaged in the landscape, archaeologists found new ways to find traces of the past.…”
In a world of acceleration and consumption, where the small screen often has greater appeal than the real world, society is becoming increasingly detached from the landscape and the places within it. Yet 'modernity is society on the move', and in an increasingly mobile world, travel provides new opportunities for distinct types of encounter. Based on the pace, rhythms and rituals of each, this paper examines how different modes of transport afford distinct opportunities for travellers to see and read the landscape and to better understand the processes of change that have shaped what we see today. In this paper we explore these distinct opportunities, presenting the idea of travel as a methodology that affords unique and significant ways of documenting and understanding landscape, and in particular its character and its dynamism.
“…Crawford, who founded Antiquity, had a special interest in maps as Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey, the UK national mapping agency. He has even been credited with the invention of the archaeological distribution map 6 .…”
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