Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain

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This breathtaking collection of aerial images reveals ancient monuments from all around the British Isles, as they have never been seen before: Neolithic enclosures, cairns and stone circles; Bronze Age villages, farmsteads, tombs and burial mounds; and Iron Age hillforts, all photographed in spectacular bird’s-eye-view detail. The remains of ancient archaeology such as a Neolithic long barrow near Broughton, Hampshire, as well as remains of Iron Age forts such as Pilsdon Pen in Dorset and medieval villages such as Old Sulby in Northamptonshire.

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Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). I think our ancestors wanted them to be seen from the air,’ says Abram, ‘certainly the Neolithic ones, because I believe that a lot of Neolithic monuments were about connecting what was above the ground with what’s below. They thought deeply about the ground, the earth that we walk on.’ White Caterthun, Angus: Vitrified Iron Age hillfort in the northeast Highlands Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

David R Abram

Over the coming years, Historic England aims to expand the platform, as more of the six million aerial images in Historic England Archive are digitised.