ABSTRACT
This chapter explores connections between archaeological studies of landscapes and Tim Ingold's vision of the world as a kind of meshwork, but it is important to make a fundamental point about method first. Both case-studies focused on crossing-points which, due partly to geomorphological and partly to social and economic factors, moved from one place in the landscape to another. In thinking of people or animal movements across and through landscapes, it often happens that landscapes themselves come to be conceived of by default as static backdrops to all that activity. The newly discovered droveway, thought to be of middle Saxon date, comprises one section of a former corridor of movement: the trapezoidal marketplace comprises another. It is actually the key part of the archaeological landscape, a node in a shifting meshwork that was still in the process of formation, where strands of animal and human movement intermeshed with strands of flowing materials.
