National Record of the Historic Environment: Historic Land use Assessment

The Historic Land use Assessment (HLA) is a technique for helping understand the historic aspects of the landscape around us from an archaeological perspective. The HLA records the historical origins of the various components that make up the landscape, showing how they interrelate spatially and chronologically, and in doing so offers an insight into some of the processes that have created our modern landscape and enables us to recognise how features that survive from past events continue to influence the present. As such, the HLA is a key tool for understanding the historic landscape and complements other techniques of landscape assessment. In combination these enable a more holistic view of the landscape and its development over time to be achieved and approaches to landscape management and planning to be better integrated.

历史土地利用评估（Historic Land use Assessment，简称HLA）是一项有助于从考古学角度理解周围景观历史特征的技法。HLA记录了构成景观的各个组成部分的历史渊源，揭示了它们在空间和历史上的相互关联，从而为理解塑造现代景观的一些过程提供了洞见，并使我们能够识别出从过往事件中留存下来的特征如何持续影响着当下。因此，HLA是理解历史景观的关键工具，并补充了其他景观评估技术。结合这些技术，能够实现更全面的景观及其随时间发展变化的观察视角，并促进景观管理和规划方法的更好融合。