ABSTRACT
The theme of ‘landmarks’ continues in this chapter, taking up the narrative from the twenty-second century BC. The argument connects monuments and fields as comparable means of landmarking. Bounded fields became a widespread technology for relating people, animals and land during the sixteenth century BC. Rectilinear fields were a distinct form of landmarking across hundreds and occasionally thousands of hectares of land in southern Britain. The rectilinear fields honoured the land, its histories and supernatural forces. The fields charted the histories of tenurial exchanges, and the routines and work done by people, animals and plants. After a pause, landmarking returned on a large scale to many regions with long-distance linear boundaries and pit alignments.
