Glossary

  • Ancient Woodland - An ancient woodland is a woodland that has existed continuously since 1600 or before.
  • Banjo Enclosures - A type of archaeological feature of the British Middle Iron Age. It is so named because in plan it consists of a small round area with a long entrance track leading inward from one direction. This layout gives it the appearance of a frying pan or banjo.
  • Bronze Age - In Great Britain, the Bronze Age is considered to have been the period from around 2100 to 750 BC
  • Causewayed Enclosure - A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric earthwork common to the early Neolithic. Causewayed enclosures are often located on hilltop sites, encircled by one to four concentric ditches with an internal bank. 
  • Chalk Downland - A downland is an area of open chalk hills. This term is especially used to describe the chalk countryside in southern England. Areas of downland are often referred to as Downs, deriving from a Celtic word for "hills".
  • Chase -
  • Common Grazing - Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect firewood, or to cut turf for fuel.
  • Cropmarks -
  • Cross Dykes -
  • Deer Park -
  • Designed Parkland -
  • Dispersed Settlement -
  • Fieldscapes -
  • Flint Scatters -
  • Henge -
  • Hillfort -
  • Historic Designed Parklands -
  • Historic Farmsteads -
  • Historic Park -
  • Landscape Park -
  • Late Bronze Age -
  • Linear Earthworks -
  • Long Barrow -
  • Lynchets -
  • Nucleated Settlement -
  • Open Chalk Downland -
  • Open Fields -
  • Open Meadows -
  • Palaeolithic -
  • Parliamentary Enclosure -
  • Plantation -
  • Prehistoric Field Systems -
  • Pre 1700 Enclosure -
  • Ring Ditch -
  • Roman Road -
  • Round Barrow -
  • Stone Circle -
  • Unenclosed Downland - 
  • Woodland Plantation -