Historic Landscape Analysis: Deciphering The Countryside,9781902771441

Historic Landscape Analysis: Deciphering The Countryside

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ISBN13: 9781902771441
ISBN10: 1902771443
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-08-15
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary

This handbook introduces some of the techniques that archaeologists, historians, historical geographers and planners can use to unravel the complex history of the countryside. A series of case studies demonstrate practical applications of historic landscape analysis for a broad range of uses and at a variety of national and regional levels.

Table of Contents

List of figures
vi
List of colour plates
viii
List of tables
viii
Terms and abbreviations ix
Preface x
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL VARIATION IN LANDSCAPE CHARACTER
1(52)
Introduction
1(5)
Our rich and varied landscape
1(2)
Past- and future-oriented analysis of the historic landscape and `Historic Landscape Characterisation'
3(2)
The scope of this handbook
5(1)
A note on townscapes
6(1)
Regional Variation in Landscape Character and the Trajectories of Change
6(8)
Approaches to Studying Regional Variation in Landscape Character
14(5)
The Composition of a Historic Landscape: Elements, Components, Types, Zones, and Areas
19(12)
Deconstructing a historic landscape
19(1)
Historic landscape components
19(5)
Historic landscape types, zones, and areas
24(1)
Approaching the task: top-down or bottom-up
25(1)
The colour, texture, language, and experience of landscape
26(3)
Relict and historic landscapes
29(2)
Case Study: Holne Moor, Dartmoor
31(7)
Putting people in the landscape: the concept of `natural beauty' and the role of the natural environment in shaping historic landscape character
34(4)
Case Study: Hadleigh, Essex
38(13)
Summary So Far
51(2)
PART TWO: APPROACHES AND METHODS
53(47)
The Historic Landscape in Planning for the Future: Recent Developments Within Britain
53(17)
England: `Historic Landscape Characterisation'
53(2)
Scotland: `Historic Landuse Assessment'
55(10)
Wales
65(5)
The Register of Landscapes of Historic Interest in Wales
65(1)
The Gwent Levels Historic Landscape Study
65(3)
Top-down historic landscape characterisation in Wales
68(2)
Case Study: The CLWYD-POWYS Archaeological Trust's Historic Landscape Characterisation of the Middle WYE Valley
70(6)
Attributing value to historic landscape character
74(2)
Historic Landscape Analysis and Understanding the Processes of Landscape Change
76(10)
The integration of sources
76(1)
The scale of research
77(1)
Base maps in past-oriented historic landscape analysis
78(1)
Map regression/retrogressive analysis
79(2)
Patterns of landholding in the historic landscape
81(1)
Establishing a chronology and the role of schematic modeling
81(5)
Case Study: The Early Stages of Marshland Colonisation: Puxton and the Caldicot Level
86(12)
Summary So Far
98(2)
PART THREE: APPLICATIONS AND USES
100(43)
Some Uses of HLC in Planning and Countryside Management
100(1)
Landscape Character Assessment
100(1)
Planning
100(1)
Landscape conservation, management, and enhancement
100(1)
Cornwall -- The Principles Established
101(5)
The methodology
101(2)
Subsequent refinements and research applications
103(3)
Lancashire -- A Gis-Based Approach
106(5)
The methodology
107(2)
Discussion and examples of analysis
109(2)
Case Study: Lancashire HLC Type: Ancient and Post-Medieval Industry
111(1)
Case Study: Using Historic Landscape Characterisation
112(3)
Jo Clark
Somerset -- Beyond HLC Towards the Origins of Villages and Open Fields
115(17)
The physical landscape
116(4)
Settlement
120(1)
Field systems
121(2)
Farming regions
123(4)
Discussion: population, economy, and lordship
127(5)
Case Study: Meare, Somerset: Linking Maps and Documents
132(11)
PART FOUR: TOWARDS A MODEL OF GOOD PRACTICE
143(1)
Key Points
144(3)
Bibliography
147(15)
Index
162

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