Garden Archaeology by Christopher Currie

Garden Archaeology by Christopher Currie

Before the 1980s, people wishing to recreate or reconstruct a historic garden, 'back to its former glory,' relied almost solely on documentary sources, paintings and literary references. For the last twenty years it has been recognised that these are not terribly reliable sources and people have turned to archaeological evidence to provide a more accurate picture of what went on beneath the soil. This handbook relates the historical background to the sub-discipline of Garden Archaeology before discussing the excavation techniques used to recover and record evidence of past garden designs and plants. Survey techniques, historical buildings analysis, geophysics, air photography and environmental sampling are some of the main procedures carried out, all of which are described here. This reappraisal of current practice and techniques is well written and clearly presented and includes a series of case studies of formal, informal, water, town and unusual gardens from across the UK.

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ISBN 13	9781902771489
ISBN 10	1902771486
Title	Garden Archaeology
Author	Christopher Currie
Series	Practical Handbooks In Archaeology
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Council for British Archaeology
Year published	2005-08-04
Number of pages	178
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