Abstract

Christians, Chapels, Churches and Charters- or, 'Proto-parochial provisions for the pious in a peninsula' (Land's End) Charles Thomas It is sad, but true, that in 1988 no one mind may perhaps the undesirability, of considering the comprehend all the remains of antiquity in the individual religious sites as somehow divorced from fashion once common to the giants and pioneers of a sufficiently broad physical setting. The fault, if it exists, is by no means universal; Sherborne and our discipline. The usual mode of amassing new data, original study in the field or the laboratory, has Whithorn would not be the only places that hardly become a process demanding so much time, even merit such a comment. But on a wider scale the within a 16-hour day, that specialisation becomes tendency to 'site emphasis' is inherited, obviously obligatory. Thus, successively, we have welcomed not from geographers nor (ever since the palaeo­ agrarian archaeology, medieval and post-medieval environment was invented) from prehistorians, but period societies, Early Christian enthusiasts, and I would guess from classical scholarship. Who has (granted that almost all communal human activity ever seen a 1:500 contoured base map ofTroy, or the requires the scenario of a landsc-Jpe) landscape