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Book Reviews l a n d s c a p e s (2008), 1, pp. 91 – Antony J. Long, Martyn P. Waller and Andrew J. Plater (eds), Dungeness and Romney Marsh. Barrier dynamics and marshland evolution (2007) Oxbow Books, Oxford. 248 pages, illustrated. ISBN 9781842172889, £30.00. One of the features of research on Romney Marsh since the 1980s has been the combined attempts to understand the evolution of the landscape using evidence from the three disciplines – sedimentology, archaeology and history. This volume largely reports the results of work using the first of these, but it draws upon evidence from the other two. What makes it of interest to readers of this journal, since it is not a study of landscape history in the strict sense, is that it reports work on two areas of crucial importance to an understanding of this highly dynamic environment – the Rye estuary which gave access to the major medieval ports of Rye and Winchelsea, and the shingle headland of Dungeness which protected Denge Marsh and the town of Lydd beyond it. During the course of the last twenty years a series of studies by workers from each of the three disciplines has examined http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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© 2008 Maney Publishing
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1466-2035
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10.1179/lan.2008.9.1.91
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l a n d s c a p e s (2008), 1, pp. 91 – Antony J. Long, Martyn P. Waller and Andrew J. Plater (eds), Dungeness and Romney Marsh. Barrier dynamics and marshland evolution (2007) Oxbow Books, Oxford. 248 pages, illustrated. ISBN 9781842172889, £30.00. One of the features of research on Romney Marsh since the 1980s has been the combined attempts to understand the evolution of the landscape using evidence from the three disciplines – sedimentology, archaeology and history. This volume largely reports the results of work using the first of these, but it draws upon evidence from the other two. What makes it of interest to readers of this journal, since it is not a study of landscape history in the strict sense, is that it reports work on two areas of crucial importance to an understanding of this highly dynamic environment – the Rye estuary which gave access to the major medieval ports of Rye and Winchelsea, and the shingle headland of Dungeness which protected Denge Marsh and the town of Lydd beyond it. During the course of the last twenty years a series of studies by workers from each of the three disciplines has examined

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