Archaeological Cropmark Landscapes of the Magnesian Limestone

Archaeologists have, for the last 30 years, been recording the rural archaeology of the Magnesian Limestone belt and adjacent areas in South, West and North Yorkshire. This has occurred in a rather piecemeal way. Initially this was carried out through the air reconnaissance of cropmarks, but more lately through a combination of air photo interpretation and mapping, geophysical survey and excavation, mainly as a consequence of extensive aggregates extraction. Recent archaeological work has begun to reveal patterns and ask questions of the evidence, but these can never be answered on a site-by-site basis and require a more global synthesis to which this project aimed to contribute.