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Archaeology has long benefited from the use of aerial photography, revealing sites that are often difficult or even impossible, to see on the ground. Interpretation and mapping of sites visible as cropmarks, soilmarks and earthworks allows a better understanding of past landscapes to inform research and management strategies.
- Aerial Investigation
Sources Standard sources for any archaeological mapping...
- Satellite and Multi-Spectral Imagery
Resolution is the key Online tools such as GoogleEarth and...
- Formation of Cropmarks
The aim of the sequence below is to show a site that saw two...
- Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer
You can download spatial data depicting archaeology that has...
- Aerial Investigation
- Iron Age Round, St Ive, Cornwall
- Prehistoric Settlement, Lansallos, Cornwall
- Iron Age Square Barrows, Pocklington, Yorkshire
- Bronze Age Burial Mound and Prehistoric Pit Alignment, Scropton, Derbyshire
Rounds were widespread in Cornwall in the Iron Age. These settlements consist of a circular bank and outer ditch with a single entrance and usually contained round houses positioned close to the edge of the outer ditch. In this case, the outer ditch only can be seen. In addition to the round, there is a rectangular enclosure and a double-ditched en...
This is one of dozens of new discoveries in Cornwall. Its layout is unusual with concentric ditches with entrances connected by two parallel ditches. It is thought the inner ditch surrounded a settlement from the Bronze Age or Iron Age and the outer ditch may be later in date and used as part of a system to manage livestock.
The cropmarks of four squares indicate the distinctive remains of Iron Age burial sites on the Yorkshire Wolds. These cropmarks represent the ditch surrounding a burial mound. Although relatively rare nationally, these square barrows are common on the Yorkshire Wolds and are sometimes associated with elaborate burials with exotic grave goods such a...
The unusual triple-ditched circular enclosure indicates the remains of a complicated structure of a Bronze Age burial mound or barrow. The stripes running top left to bottom right of the same field are caused by the buried remains of ridge and furrow that formed during medieval cultivation of the area, perhaps levelling the mound over the barrow. A...
You can download spatial data depicting archaeology that has been identified, mapped and recorded using aerial photographs and other aerial sources across England via our open data page.
Photographs and 3D laser scans have been taken over the past 30 years to uncover "hidden archaeological landscapes", Historic England said. Sites include 6,000-year-old long barrows, Roman...
Air photographs may reveal archaeological sites directly, where they are extant, or as crop, soil or other surface indications where the site is buried. Taking photographs from the air began with balloons in the nineteenth century, and has developed as a means of landscape survey during the twentieth century using aircraft, mainly aeroplanes ...
Aerial photos can reveal hidden archaeology and sites that are difficult or even impossible to see from the ground. You can explore over 400,000 digitised photos taken from our aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs preserved in the Historic England Archive.
Mar 22, 2022 · Aerial imagery provides a fascinating insight into the development and expansion of the nation’s urban centres and changes to the rural landscape. It can also reveal striking discoveries - such as ‘cropmarks’ showing hidden, archaeology beneath the surface.
