Overview
The Peak District is a historic upland landscape, with a rich palimpsest of features which invoke the many generations of people who have inhabited the area. The great estate of Chatsworth reflects the Peak in microcosm. Its landscapes are diverse and contain many exceptional features including archaeological earthworks of medieval open fields and later enclosures in the park, and prehistoric stone circles, barrows, fields and settlements on the Estate moorlands. This book tells the story of the historic landscape and its archaeology; it is a companion volume to Chatsworth: A Landscape History (Barnatt & Williamson), but in contrast to that book includes the whole of the Estate landscape, including the extensive farmland and moorlands beyond the park and concentrates on visible archaeology and what it can tell us about the past. The result is a fascinating in-depth portrait of one of the major estates in Britain.
Full Product Details
Author: Nicola Bannister ,
John Barnatt
Publisher: Windgather Press
Imprint: Windgather Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9781905119271
ISBN 10: 1905119275
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 25 August 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Excellent illustrations and a commendable breadth of vision...' -- Jon Finch British Archaeology, 110, December 2009 This is an excellent, well-written summary of existing knowledge about the estate... a worthy successor to John Barnatt and Tom Williamson's Chatsworth: a landscape history (2005).' -- David Hey Landscape History, Vol. 31, Issue 1, 2010
Excellent illustrations and a commendable breadth of vision...' -- British Archaeology British Archaeology This is an excellent, well-written summary of existing knowledge about the estate... a worthy successor to John Barnatt and Tom Williamson's Chatsworth: a landscape history (2005).' -- Landscape History Landscape History
Excellent illustrations and a commendable breadth of vision...' -- Jon Finch British Archaeology 110, December 2009 This is an excellent, well-written summary of existing knowledge about the estate... a worthy successor to John Barnatt and Tom Williamson's Chatsworth: a landscape history (2005).' -- David Hey Landscape History Vol. 31, Issue 1, 2010
Author Information
John Barnatt has worked in the Peak District for five decades, as a survey archaeologist for the National Park since 1989, carrying out survey, excavation and assessment reports of many monuments and other sites here. One of his long-standing passions has been reaching understandings of the region’s prehistory.
