The archaeology of a great estate - John Barnatt

The Peak District is a historic upland landscape, with a rich
palimpsest of features which invoke the many generations of
people who have inhabited the area. The great estate of
Chatsworth reflects the Peak in microcosm. Its landscapes are
diverse and contain many exceptional features including
archaeological earthworks of medieval open fields and later
enclosures in the park, and prehistoric stone circles, barrows,
fields and settlements on the Estate moorlands. This book tells
the story of the historic landscape and its archaeology; it is a
companion volume to
Chatsworth: A Landscape History
(Barnatt & Williamson), but in contrast to that book includes the whole of
the Estate landscape, including the extensive farmland and
moorlands beyond the park and concentrates on visible archaeology
and what it can tell us about the past. The result is a
fascinating in-depth portrait of one of the major estates in
Britain.