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History in the Open Air

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

H. J. Randall
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The face of the country is the most important historical document that we possess. Upon the map of England-‘ that marvellous palimpsest ’—is written much of English history : written in letters of earth and stone, of bank and ditch, of foliage and crop. As is the case with every map, the writing is not such as he that runs may read. It needs patience to discover, knowledge to decipher, insight, sometimes amounting to genius, to interpret. But the writing is there, all else awaits the competence of the reader.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 29 , March 1934 , pp. 5 - 23
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1934

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* A delicious sentence must be rescued from the life of Hoare in D.N.B.: ‘Hoare, who was a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, suffered greatly from rheumatic gout in the latter part of his life, and was deaf for some years’. Is this meant as a consequence, or merely a coincidence?

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