{"title":"Grinton-Fremington Dykes: Names, Places and Spaces","authors":"W. Swales","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2020.1802133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1802133","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Landscapes 16 (1), a debate following a survey of the largest and best preserved of four cross-dale dykes in Swaledale (Yorkshire, northern England), known as the Grinton-Fremington Dykes, produced agreement that its main section belonged to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Apart from chronology, many more questions about the dykes remain unanswered. This new contribution to the debate, by a non-archaeologist, draws on place-name interpretations, map studies and ground observations to explore new areas of interest that can expand our understanding of the dykes and their environment, and raise new challenges for future investigations. It includes the first full analysis of the place-names associated with the dykes, revealing new understandings and interpretations of the landscape in which they stand. It explores a previously published suggestion that the upper section of the surveyed dyke might be a later extension, and considers how this could reinvigorate the generally unpopular idea that the four dykes were built as land boundaries rather than as elements in a system of political defence.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"20 1","pages":"4 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2020.1802133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42970366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Castles and the Biography of Place: Boundaries, Meeting Places and Mobility in the Sussex Landscape","authors":"Elaine Jamieson","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2020.1794143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1794143","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the influence of antecedent landscapes on the placement of medieval castles in Sussex. It considers the relationship between castles and major physical features of the pre-Conquest landscape: territorial and administrative boundaries, meeting places, routeways, crossing points and ‘central’ places. After examining the ways in which these landscape elements helped shape the character of the ancient territory, it considers their conceptual and practical influence on the siting of the region’s medieval castles, with a particular focus on sites with their origins in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Using Bramber castle as a case study, through existing and new archaeological evidence, including recent analytical earthwork survey and scientific dating, the paper examines in detail the ways in which elements of the natural and cultural world were drawn into an evolving narrative of Norman elite authority. The conclusion is that castles were deliberately sited within much-occupied geographies as part of a deliberate policy aimed at constructing and reproducing claims to territory, power and place.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"20 1","pages":"24 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2020.1794143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41707793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England","authors":"G. Fairclough","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2020.1827708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1827708","url":null,"abstract":"Rising next to the Canadian border, traversing four states (Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut) and meeting the Atlantic in Long Island Sound, the 400-mile Connecticut River is N...","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"20 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2020.1827708","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48825385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Britain needed aeroplanes’: First World War Flax-Growing at Podington, Bedfordshire (UK)","authors":"P. Stamper","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2019.1685830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2019.1685830","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Linen is made from flax. Before 1914 the crop had largely fallen out of cultivation in England, but especially in the latter part of the First World War, it became essential for Britain to greatly increase the amount it grew as imports of it largely stopped. The military’s demands for linen-based products such as tents and webbing were already almost insatiable, and as the size of the air fleet, and aircraft themselves, continued to grow, there was a specific requirement for high-quality ‘aircraft cloth’ to cover wings and airframes. This article describes wartime flax cultivation, especially on the Bedfordshire–Northamptonshire border. Much of the crop was gathered by prisoners of war and college girls, activity recorded in paintings by Randolph Schwabe, an official war artist.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"19 1","pages":"135 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2019.1685830","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41394805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topographical Art and the Rediscovery of Lost Landscapes: Understanding Ligurian Rewilding 1850–2020","authors":"Pietro Piana, C. Watkins, Ivan Tekić","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2020.1756613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1756613","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines how useful nineteenth and early twentieth century topographical art can be as a source to help rediscover former cultural landscapes obscured over the last 60 years by ‘spontaneous re-wilding’. It assesses whether the analysis of images and comparison with present day landscapes and intervening historical maps may be of value in demonstrating the extent of landscape changes. The paper considers paintings of three ‘every day’ landscapes in north west Italy and the changes that have taken place over the last 150 years or so in three case study areas at Savignone, Andora and Sant’Andrea di Foggia. Can such paintings provide insights into forgotten and hidden geographies and generate ideas about how lost landscapes might be recreated? We consider whether the systematic analysis of different evidence for the same study areas allows subtle and deep interpretations of environmental change. We also consider whether such art can be used to improve landscape understanding and management.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"19 1","pages":"111 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2020.1756613","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47048946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ancient Ways of Wessex: Travel and communication in an early medieval landscape","authors":"A. Fleming","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2020.1740543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1740543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"19 1","pages":"170 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2020.1740543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48382451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the Age of Ancient Oaks","authors":"T. Moller","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2019.1684737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2019.1684737","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An established method for estimating the age of large and veteran trees is reviewed in the context of historic girth measurements of specimen oaks spanning up to 231 years. Such data are used to recalibrate the earlier model and to generate an improved scheme for predicting the probable age of ancient oaks from traditional measurements of their girth. The data upon which the recalibration is based reveals a consistent linear relationship between girth and age that can last more than two centuries. This indicates that mature oaks follow a particular growth trajectory with respect to girth that is tenaciously maintained over time in the face of changes in their circumstances and surroundings. The revised method can form part of a suite of aids available to researchers investigating the age of historical features in the landscape.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"19 1","pages":"110 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2019.1684737","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46567007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Language of the Landscape: A journey into Lake District history","authors":"G. Fairclough","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2020.1740544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1740544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"19 1","pages":"169 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2020.1740544","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44716960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}