The Peak District -Britain's first National Park - has some of Britain's richest archaeological landscapes. When this book was first published in 1997, in Batsford's English Heritage series, it revealed them for the first time in all their diversity. Prehistoric barrows, stone circles, Romano-British settlements, medieval fields, ancient drove-ways, nineteenth-century lead mines: all are prominent in this extraordinary area. This new edition draws on the extensive archaeological research that has taken place in the Peak since 1997, and provides new maps and interpretations. It tells the story...
The Peak District -Britain's first National Park - has some of Britain's richest archaeological landscapes. When this book was first published in 1997...
Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other structures which can still be traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography documents prehistoric activity across this area, exploring the changing character of occupation from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. It also tacks back and forth between local detail and regional patterns, to better...
Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gar...
Some places have impressive workings and these have such things as engine chambers, arched levels, deep shafts, underground canals, drainage soughs, and discarded equipment. This book presents a detailed introduction to the underground mining and quarrying heritage in England.
Some places have impressive workings and these have such things as engine chambers, arched levels, deep shafts, underground canals, drainage soughs, a...
