Wessex: A Landscape History

by Hadrian Cook

Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Constituting no modern political entity, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom and archaeological province of 'Wessex' may be defined by its natural resources and connectivity by both land and sea, for its borders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803275359
• ISBN13: 9781803275352
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.