SALISBURY PLAN TRAINING AREA A report for the National Mapping Programme WILTSHIRE AND HAMPSHIRE
Author(s): Simon Crutchley
The Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) Mapping Project is part of the English Heritage's (formally RCHMEs) National Mapping Programme (NMP). According to the Aerial Survey strategy the aim of NMP is to enhance our understanding about past human settlement, by providing primary information and syntheses for all archaeological sites and landscapes (visible on aerial photographs) from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century. In practical terms the purpose of NMP is to map, document and classify, at a common scale and to a common standard, all archaeological sites and landscapes recorded in England on aerial photographs. The specific purpose of SPTA Mapping Project was to produce a baseline record of all visible archaeological features dating from prehistory until the end of WWII, to enable more detailed survey work on the ground at certain sites and help set those sites in their landscape context.
- Report Number:
- 127/2000
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 97
- Keywords:
- Bronze Age Early Medieval Iron Age Medieval Modern Neolithic Post Medieval Prehistoric Roman Stone Stone, Worked Aerial Photograph Interpretation Aerial Photography
