Abstract

Landscape Archaeology in Ireland, British programme which. attempted within difficult Archaeological Reports, British Series, 116 (Oxford, constraints to compile in essentials a sites-and­ 1983). Edited by TERENCE REEVES-SMYfH and FRED monuments record for a county with a wide range of HAMOND. 21 x 29.5 em. xi+ 389 pp., 25 tables, 81 figs, sites located in a highly varied terrain. While the 20 plates. Price .£17.00. decision in the particular circumstances of this survey to restrict data collection and publication to For some fifty years Estyn Evans and Frank Mitchell sites earlier than AD. 1700 is understandable, how have contributed steadily through their publications valid for archaeologists wishing to study whole to unravelling that tangled skein which is the Irish landscapes, or influence public opinion to preserve landscape. Simultaneously they have made the varied aspects of those landscapes, are the claims contributions of more than insular importance to a that 'the more important structures after that date are wide range of disciplines from archaeology and likely to survive in use', and 'vernacular buildings anthropology in the broadest sense, through botany, and settlements, of which many thousands survive, geography and geology, to palaeobotany and are more properly within the scope of