Abstract

Air photo interpretation and the Lincolnshire Penland Rog Palmer the highest, most stable, ground (for amplification INTRODUCTION see Hayes & Lane 1992, pp. 5-7). Roddons and The recent work of the Penland Survey, a project local islands were crucial to prehistoric and Romano­ funded by English Heritage, included extensive British occupation of the Penland. These, and fieldwalking in the East Anglian Penland. changes in sea level, dictated the extent of land Archaeological survey, to detect surface scatters of available for use at any one time. artefacts, was paralleled by environmental investi­ This paper begins by summarising past aerial gations and the combined information allows reconnaissance and photo interpretation of the considerably increased understanding about Penland before identifying the sources and methods landscape and settlement in the Penland from the of my recent work. Much of the remainder of the mesolithic to medieval times (summarised in Hall text contains a related mixture of thoughts on some & Coles 1994). Critical interpretation of aerial of the archaeological features mapped from aerial photographs was not included as part of that photographs. A logical beginning was provided by Survey. the roddon-following ditch-defined tracks, which A project to map the aerial photographic perhaps formalised