Occasional Magazine Vol.2 No.4 (August 1920)
Earthwork of the New Forest by R. P. L. Booker. Excavating and studying earthworks recovers the artefacts by which the social history of a locality is reconstructed. Archaeology became more scientific at the beginning of the 20th century when a scheme of classification for earth enclosures was formulated. The artist and antiquary, Heywood Sumner, published a catalogue of the Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest “recently” [1917] and the present paper (dated April 1918) summarises its main findings. The book’s introduction had given a guide to how descriptive names of features like brooks, fords, earthworks and barrows differ in different areas. Sumner then enumerated all the defensive camps, pastoral or peaceful enclosures, dykes, medieval parks, barrows, stag parks and bee gardens he had studied and elucidated how ancient work can be distinguished from modern.
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