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The assumption that regular landscapes containing seemingly ordered arrangements of boundaries and lanes could only arise through deliberate planning has been a central pillar of 'relict field systems' - the survival of organised prehistoric and Roman field systems in the framework of the medieval and modern landscape. Similar ideas underpin arguments for the planned origins of open fields. How the Land Lies argues that the notion that regularity must indicate landscape planning is flawed without careful consideration of the environmental context. Combining archaeological, historical and environmental sources in a number of case studies, this book presents evidence for the importance of topography, drainage and environment to the location and direction of boundaries in lowland England.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Interpreting patterns
Part One: Reassessing 'relict field systems'
1. 'Rough grids': Prehistoric boundaries and 'ancient' fields
2. The 'relict field systems' in West Cambridgeshire
3. Revisiting some famous 'relict field systems'
4. Summary and conclusion to Part One
Part Two: Planned open fields
5. The origins of open fields
6. Open fields and 'planned' agricultural landscapes
7. Northamptonshire and its open fields
8. Marshland: A planned landscape?
9. Conclusion
10. Bibliography
