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landscapes, Vol. 16 No. 1, June, 2015, 97–102 The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor.ByPHIL NEWMAN 2011. English Heritage, 276 pages, 224 illustrations. ISBN 9781848020337, £30 pbk. This is a welcome addition to a growing number of studies based primarily on extensive archaeological survey of the historic landscapes and monuments of the uplands of south-west Britain, a set of works inaugurated in 1994 with the first volume of Johnson and Rose’s Bodmin Moor survey. The author of the present volume was a member of English Heritage’s archaeological survey team and its strengths lie where they might be anticipated, notably in the large number of detailed surveys and plans and a wealth of excellent photographs. There are useful accounts and graphic depictions of the wide variety of individual monument types of all periods found on Dartmoor, reflecting the long tradition of field investigation inherited by English Heritage. Appropriately the volume is dedicated to the late Norman Quinnell of the Ordnance Survey. Phil Newman’s own research interests in medieval and later industrial activity are very well covered, and there are substantial chapters on medieval agriculture and settlement, post- medieval ‘improvers’ and modern military features. Other elements are less surely handled, particularly relating to