ABSTRACT
Archaeological earthworks were noted on the individual sheets compiled for each field and on a duplicate set of 1:2500 maps reduced to a scale of 1:5000 and these can be consulted in the Project archive. This chapter focuses on the historical and topographical evidence for a series of discrete earthworks in the parish. New avenues of explanation have opened up, the influence of ethnography bringing into question the archaeologists' concept of the 'site', and encouraging the analysis of entire land surfaces. A number of other archaeological projects were examined to see what size collecting areas had been adopted and how much time had been allowed for collection. In the Shapwick case, the shallowness of the archaeological deposits must be borne in mind. The archaeological evidence from fieldwalking shows that chalk was in use as manure at Shapwick because this is how some of the flints find their way into the fields.
