The Peak District, Britain's first National Park, is famous for its outstanding natural beauty. At the heart of the region, on the limestone plateau of the White Peak, features of different periods are often found cheek by jowl, where the land has been in constant use over the centuries. In contrast, the gritstone moorland of the Dark Peak was only cultivated in prehistoric times; the many ancient farms and fields that have survived until today give a clear view back to its earliest settlers. From prehistoric barrows and Romano-British settlements to medieval fields and 19th-century lead mines, this work explores these varied landscapes and introduces the people who created them. It looks at the prehistoric sacred and ritual landscapes and how the ancient inhabitants viewed their world. Photographs, illustrations and plans reveal how the Peak District has changed through the ages.

Landscapes Through Time: Peak District (English Heritage (Paper))

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Ken

Barnatt, John

Sociology

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

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Prehistoric Cornwall: The ceremonial monuments

History

Europe

Turnstone Press

Delving Ever Deeper: The Ecton Mines Through Time

Peak District National Park Authority

of 15 years' detailed research. The summaries for each of the 87 sites are comprehensively referenced. Of particular interest is the reinterpretation of 32 examples as anything from robbed cairns to quarries. 102p, 51 figs, 3 tables (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 1, J. R. Collis Publications 1990) Pb

The Henges, Stone Circles and Ringcairns of the Peak District (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs)

Archaeology

Equinox

The fieldwork and analysis carried out for the Derbyshire Archaeological Advisory Committee in 1988-89 incorporated assessment of every monument in the Peak District which was recorded in the Couinty Sites and Monuments Record as a barrow or possible barrow. Aims included recording the present state of each monument and assessment of present and future threats, as well as assimilation of data from previous excavations. Many sites had not been visited for decades: others had to be reinterpreted, and new correlations between sites and antiquarians' excavation reports were made. The volume includes a thorough analysis of the barrows, with a detailed overview of extant sites and past excavations, multiphased barrows and a case-study of a bronze-age barrow at Hognaston, plus a comprehensive corpus of all sites.

Barrows in the Peak District: Recent Research (Uk/Ne-bur)

Equinox Publishing

The Peak District has been inhabited by humans for tens of thousands of years, beginning the process that irreperably changed the shape of the landscape. This volume focuses on this relationship between human settlers and farmers and the landscape showing how both have been affected by the other. Following a brief examination of the earliest evidence for hunter-gatherers, principally stone artefacts and cave sites, the authors focus on the activity that, more than anything else, has shaped the landscape that we see today, agriculture. The study searches for evidence of the earliest farmers in the remains of fields, structures, sacred monuments and burials, including over 500 barrows. The authors trace fluctuations in farmers' fortunes, especially during the Iron Age when the climate changed for the worse. Supported by maps, photographs and illustrations, the book discusses the impact of hillforts and the Romans, the increase in mining, Christian monuments, the creation of villages, the uses of woodland, common ground and enclosed areas, the introduction of turnpike roads and the industrial monuments of the 18th and 19th centuries. This is more of a chronological survey than an in-depth study of the Peak District although the narrative is informative if rather impersonal.

The Peak District: Landscapes Through Time (Landscapes of Britain)

Windgather Press

Describes and interprets the Peak District through time, explaining and mapping the landscape.

Reading the Peak District Landscape (Historic England)

Historic England

This book presents a detailed introduction to the underground mining and quarrying heritage in England. It reviews the many types of mineral and stone taken from the ground over several millennia and also looks at the wide range of archaeological remains that survive today and are accessible to those who venture underground. It is designed to illustrate the many and varied wonders to be found underground and give the reader ways forward should they wish to follow up their interest in particular types of extraction or what is present in their region.

The Archaeology of Underground Mines and Quarries in England (Historic England)

Set within the stunning landscape of the Peak District National Park, exquisite Chatsworth House is one of the most visited properties in England. Its vast gardens and parks, which stand in direct contrast to the upland moors that surround them, are the result of a labour of love by successive dukes and duchesses of Devonshire over a period of three hundred years (1600 to 1900). This wonderful book explores the history of this landscape both `BC' (`Before Chatsworth') and later, beginning with the earliest landscaping of the Elizabethan Bess of Hardwick and the ambitious project of the first dukes to create gardens and landscapes that complemented their innovative, state-of-the-art mansion, completed at the turn of the 18th century. Intended `to delight, amuse and impress', the landscape was the result of earthmoving on a massive scale, culminating in the extraordinary Canal Pond. Further afield, a deer park, enclosures, lakes, weirs, cascades and driveways tamed the moors. The landscape was repeatedly transformed and recreated by successive generations of dukes, designers and architects, notably Capability Brown who `naturalised' the grounds in the 18th century, while 19th-century tastes created much of what we see today, with conservatories, arboretums, Paxton's Emperor Fountain and the model village of Edensor. The authors also survey the earlier history of Chatsworth, the archaeology of the surrounding peaks, the remains of the medieval village of Edensor which, as was often the case with country estates, was swept away only to be later resurrected according to Victorian taste, and a number of fine, ancient oaks which have seen it all and still stand today. The book is illustrated throughout with many excellent colour photographs of the estate, and old plans and paintings which demonstrate the many changes the centuries have brought. Another excellent landscape study by Windgather Press.

Chatsworth: A Landscape History

Americas

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.

The Archaeology of a Great Estate: Chatsworth and Beyond

Bannister, Nicola

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