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The Making of the High Weald explores the natural and human interactions which have shaped the landscape of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
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Matt Pitts
Cultural Landscape Advisor
High Weald AONB Unit
The Making of the High Weald
What is Landscape?
Collins dictionary
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu
Landscape Convention Definition
•an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
What is Landscape?
Collins dictionary
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu
Landscape Convention Definition
•an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
•an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinctive
What is Landscape?
Collins dictionary
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu
Landscape Convention Definition
•an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
•an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinctive
What is Landscape?
Collins dictionary
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu
an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors. Landscape Convention Definition
Look beyond the visual
Protected Landscapes - South East
High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
A Cultural Landscape
The Natural Inheritance
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Wealden Clay
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Wealden Clay
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Wealden Clay
Lower Greensand
Upper Greensand
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Wealden Clay
Lower Greensand
Upper Greensand
Geological History
Purbeck Limestone
Hasting Group
Wealden Clay
Lower Greensand
Upper Greensand
Chalk
Geological History
Natural inheritance
Data derived from British Geological Survey (c) NERC
Geology – cross section Today
High WealdSouth Downs North Downs
Landform
Landform
Landform
Natural Colonization
Sandstone Outcrops
Water Systems
Medway
Ouse
Cuckmere
Rother
Brede
Main Rivers
Medway
Ouse
Cuckmere
Rother
Brede
Main Rivers
Medway
Ouse
Cuckmere
Rother
Brede
Main Rivers
Medway
Ouse
Cuckmere
Rother
Brede
Headwaters
Medway
Ouse
Cuckmere
Rother
Brede
Headwaters
Human Colonization
Early human activity – Mesolithic 8000 – 4300 BC
Courtesy Tunbridge Wells Museum
Early human activity – Mesolithic 8000 – 4300 BC
Microliths, found High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells
Pollen Evidence
Pollen Evidence
Pollen Evidence
Pollen Evidence
Early human activity - Neolithic 4,300 – 1400 BC
Early human activity - Neolithic 4,300 – 1400 BC
Courtesy Tunbridge Wells Museum
Polished flint axe head, found Hartfield
Early human activity - Bronze Age
Courtesy Tunbridge Wells Museum
Early human activity - Bronze Age
Tanged & barbed arrow head, found Warren Farm, Rotherfield
Roman ironworking sites
Courtesy Tunbridge Wells Museum
Roman ironworking sites
Romano- British nail, found Castle Hill, Tonbridge
Courtesy Tunbridge Wells Museum
Roman Finds
Roman Finds
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine, VRBS ROMA type, mint of Trier, c.AD 330-335
2nd Century medallion of Antoninus
2nd Century medallion of Antoninus
Transhumance: dens and droves
Early routeways
Early documentary history for dens in Sussex.
Anglo Saxon Charter of c.765 lists pig pastures and denns
LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)
Seeing through the trees
LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)
Seeing through the trees
LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)
Medieval farmstead
Braided Routeway
Medieval Period
Post Medieval Iron
Post Medieval Iron
Courtesy Tunbridge Wells Museum
9 pound cannonball, found Hadlow
Landscape character of the High Weald defined
•a ‘good landscape’ is an interesting one, in which history remains ‘legible’ so that the marks left by the work and lives of hundreds of generations of our predecessors can still be recognised.
What is Landscape?
Graham Fairclough, English Hertiage
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Supported by
A partnership between Natural England, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent and Surrey County Councils, Rother, Horsham, Mid Sussex, Tandridge, Sevenoaks, Wealden
District Councils and Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Crawley, Tonbridge and Malling and Borough Councils.
