Book description
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our
fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and
islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries
of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat
pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread
of the railways ? evidence of how man?s effect on Britain is everywhere.
In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist
and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand
the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it
throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with
pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still
pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial
Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh
at our surroundings and really see them for the first time. Pryor is
that rare combination of a first-rate working archaeologist and a good
writer, with the priceless ability of being able to explain complex
ideas clearly. This is popular archaeology at its best. Former
president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr FRANCIS PRYOR has
spent thirty years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated
sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age
villages. He appears frequently on TV's
Time Team
and is the author of Seahenge
, as well as Britain BC
and Britain AD
, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.
