ABSTRACT
This chapter will discuss the work of the Bloody Meadows Project (Carman and Carman 2001, 2006a and b, 2007a and b) as an approach to the study of historic battlefi elds both as places where particular kinds of events took place in the past and as contemporary places of experience. It is simultaneously an exercise in the kind of ‘landscape archaeology’ which investigates the past and an exercise in contemporary ‘heritage studies’; in combination these two elements ultimately focus on the historicity of certain kinds of places.
