Product Description

The Quantock Hills, famous for their associations with Coleridge and Wordsworth in the 19th century, have been the canvas on which are sketched the shadowy images of people who lived on the land from prehistoric times to the present. There are Bronze Age cairns and burial mounds, Iron Age hillforts, Roman settlements, medieval manors and post-medieval estates, right through to stark monuments of the Second World War and the Cold War. This book presents and interprets the Quantocks landscape after a dedicated program of archaeological fieldwork, air photograph transcription and architectural investigation by English Heritage. It describes the results in a readable book including full color illustrations and line drawings throughout, plus a series of lively reconstruction paintings by the artist Jane Brayne.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #597890 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 172 pages

Customer Reviews

Quantock Hills. Another great book
Another great book about the landscape archaeology and the historic landscapes of the Quantock Hills (see also "The Field Archaeology of Exmoor", by Hazel Riley and Robert Wilson-North).

The result of many years of painstaking field work this book describes the historic environment of the Quantock Hills in 6 chapters covering the early pre-history to the 21st century. There are over 140 illustrations including re-construction drawings.

It is well written and easy to read either as a text book or as a book to "dip into" to research a particular subject. It will suite the academic and non-specialist alike and anyone walking in this area would be recommended to read the book and even take it with them

This is the definitive work on the archaeology of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is unlikely to be surpassed.