Clarendon: Landscape of KingsThis richly illustrated book tells Clarendons story, from the Neolithic through to the present. It focuses in particular on the palace and deer parks medieval heyday a time when gyrfalcons soared in pursuit of cranes, and kings hunted roebuck and wolves. It also covers the centuries since the Restoration: in 1660 Clarendon became a private country estate that came to express Protestant, Tory and military values. |
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Alderbury Alejandra Gutiérrez arable archaeological Best's Farm Borenius brick Bronze Age building chalk Chamber chapel Christie-Miller Claren Clarendon House Clarendon Palace Clarendon Park Cockey Coppice Cottage decoration dendrochronology ditch documents dogs earl early earthworks Edward eighteenth century evidence example excavation fallow fallow deer FHHB Field fieldwalking Figure flint Fran Halsall Fussell's Lodge garden Gate Gilbert's Copse hall Henry Henry III Hervey-Bathurst History hunting Hyde included inner park Iron Age Ivychurch James and Robinson John kiln King Manor king's kitchen land Landscape of Kings late later Laverstock long barrow Ludlow mansion medieval palace monuments Neolithic owners park pale pasture perhaps period Peter Bathurst Petersfinger Pitton post-medieval pottery prehistoric probably Property and Parkland Queen Manor recent fieldwork recorded recovered Roman Romanesque royal Salisbury Cathedral settlement sherds structure suggests surviving tile timber TNA:PRO trees wall Wiltshire Winchester wood woodland WSRO