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'Sarsen stones in Wessex': a society of antiquaries project contextualised and renewed

Whitaker, K. A. (2020) 'Sarsen stones in Wessex': a society of antiquaries project contextualised and renewed. Antiquaries Journal, 100. pp. 432-456. ISSN 1758-5309

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1017/S0003581520000256

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This paper reviews the Society of Antiquaries’ Evolution of the Landscape project, which started in 1974, and the project’s Sarsen Stones in Wessex survey. The survey was an ambitious public archaeology project, involving c 100 volunteers led by Fellows of the Society during the 1970s. Its aims, objectives and outcomes are described. The survey’s unique dataset, produced for the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset, has now been digitised. Drawing on the dataset, the paper situates the Evolution of the Landscape project in the context of later-twentieth century British archaeology. It demonstrates the importance not only of individual Fellows, but also contemporary movements in academic and development-led archaeology, to the direction of the Society’s activities in this formative period for the discipline today, and shows how the Society’s research was engaged with some of archaeology’s most pressing cultural resource management issues

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology
ID Code:90602
Publisher:Cambridge University Press

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