John C. Barrett

Landscape Monuments and Society: The Prehistory of Cranborne Chase

John C. Barrett; Martin Green; Richard Bradley

Synopsis:
Cranborne Chase, in central southern England, is where British field archaeology developed in its modern form. The site of General Pitt-Rivers' pioneering excavations in the nineteenth-century, Cranborne Chase also provides a microcosm of virtually all the major types of field monument present in southern England as a whole. Much of the archaeological material has fortuitously survived, offering the fullest chronological cover of any part of the prehistoric British landscape. Martin Green began working in this region in 1968 and was joined by John Barrett and Richard Bradley in 1977 for a fuller program of survey and excavation which lasted nearly ten years. In this important study, they apply some of the new questions in prehistory to one of the first regions of the country to be studied in detail.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1994, Softcover - 1989, 1988, 1985, Softcover - 1980