The Landscape of Salisbury Plain, as Revealed by Aerial Photography

Crutchley, Simon

doi:10.1179/lan.2001.2.2.46

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“…Thus the approach to investigating and understanding its past required the integration of many techniques. The results have now been published (Crutchley, 2000, 2001; McOmish et al., 2002). One important contribution from aerial survey was to identify a series of curvilinear enclosures, in three size groups (McOmish et al., 2002).…”

Section: English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (Nmp)mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Examples of this approach, the analysis involved as well as the results, have recently been published (for example, Stoertz, 1997; Jones, 1998; Winton, 1998; Crutchley, 2001) and an early example can be found from research in the Solway Plain (Bewley, 1994). Here the small square enclosures (of around 1000 m 2 ) were identified as a group, and one of the sites had been excavated and dated to the 3rd–4th century ad and was thought to be a Romano‐British farmstead.…”

Section: English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (Nmp)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aerial survey for archaeology

Bewley¹

2003

The Photogrammetric Record

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Aerial photography for archaeology has been developing its approaches and techniques over the past 100 years so that it now integrates the results of reconnaissance with extensive interpretative and analytical surveys. This paper introduces the philosophy and approach of the English Heritage (EH) Aerial Survey team, covering aerial reconnaissance and the National Mapping Programme (NMP), as well as the potential developments and opportunities in Europe. In the 1980s there was a debate over the nature of the evidence derived from aerial photographs, especially how to describe archaeological features. As part of NMP a classification and recording system has been devised which meets most of the users' needs, be they national organisations, county archaeologists, commercial contractors or university-based researchers. The maps and records produced by NMP are used to further our understanding of the past human settlement in England, not only at the individual site level, but also in regional or landscape contexts. This paper provides an overview of the current progress of NMP and acts as an entrée for explaining the current research and recording of archaeological landscapes throughout Europe. Recent developments in Britain and Europe have provided the opportunity for a greater priority to be given to aerial survey and accelerating programmes of mapping. In Europe the ending of the cold war has allowed greater access to aerial photographs and the possibility of beginning new reconnaissance, as well as introducing new forms of remote sensing. All these developments have led to a transformation of our understanding of prehistoric, Roman and medieval archaeology.

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Section: English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (Nmp)mentioning

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Section: English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (Nmp)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Aerial survey for archaeology

Bewley¹

2003

The Photogrammetric Record

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“…[1941][1942][1943]) (PRO MAF32) were used as a prompt to these discussions. 7 This point is highlighted in the title to Crutchley's (2001) paper, where it is suggested that the landscape is 'revealed' by aerial photography, rather than in the interpretation of such photography. 8 Aerial photographs were used from the RAF wartime reconnaissance survey, dating between 1941 and 1947.…”

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“…Pioneered by such figures as Alexander Keiller and O.G.S. Crawford (Bowden, 2001), aerial photography has become an increasingly important tool for landscape archaeologists, with a valuable site-monitoring function recently emerging from a more established role within the reconnaissance and discovery of new sites (see Featherstone et al, 1999;Crutchley, 2001;Horne and MacLeod, 2001;Barnes, 2002;Bewley, 2003). Alongside the wider development of remote sensing, however, aerial photography has often been characterized merely as a technical undertaking, that is scientifically founded and which has a fixation with equipment.…”

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Narrating landscape: The potential of oral history for landscape archaeology

Riley¹,

Harvey²,

Brown³

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Public Archaeology

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The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is considered. The paper presents the findings from an AHRB-funded[auquery1]project 'Landscape archaeology and the community in Devon: an oral history approach', which aims to transgress some of the epistemological boundaries of archaeology by drawing on the discursive genre of oral history in order to augment, challenge and destabilize existing landscape narratives. We suggest that oral histories can offer both consensual as well as alternative narratives of landscape and have the ability to engage the public, not just in terms of the popular consumption of archaeological knowledge, but also in the actual construction of archaeological knowledge.

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New light on an ancient landscape: lidar survey in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site

2005

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Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging), which has recently come into use for airborne environmental monitoring, is now beginning to find success in archaeological survey. Liaison between the Environment Agency and English Heritage has led to a lidar survey of the Stonehenge landscape, where new sites have been discovered, known ones extended and its potential as an important new tool for the management of archaeological landscapes is discussed for the first time. Lidar has the potential to radically transform our future understanding and management of the historic environment. The article by Devereux et al. (pages 648-660 of this volume) shows the technique applied to woodland.

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The Landscape of Salisbury Plain, as Revealed by Aerial Photography

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Aerial survey for archaeology

Aerial survey for archaeology

Narrating landscape: The potential of oral history for landscape archaeology

New light on an ancient landscape: lidar survey in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site

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