ABSTRACT
Reading the landscape The British landscape has evolved over the centuries, creating a pattern that is full of meaning to the trained observer. We can only understand our present environment by reference to the past. Although archaeology does not offer any easy answers to our planet’s present predicament an understanding of where we have been must shed some light on where we are going. The important thing about our surroundings is that while each generation has made its additions to the landscape they have not wholly removed traces of earlier occupation, at least not until the twentieth century.
