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Between 1994 and 2006, a comprehensive programme of mapping and recording archaeological sites from aerial photographs in Cornwall was carried out as part of the National Mapping Programme, a project initiated and funded by English Heritage. Among the wide range of photographs consulted during the project, the most important were RAF verticals dating from the mid-twentieth century. These photographs cover the entire county, they were taken at propitious times of year and in favourable conditions both for cropmark and earthwork features, and they predate the widespread breaking-in of moorland in the later twentieth century, the post-war expansion of towns and the late twentieth-century move towards deep ploughing. For these reasons, the photographs were an indispensable source, and almost 12,000 sites, ranging from prehistoric settlements to post-medieval industrial remains, were transcribed from them.
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Young, A. (2013). Historic Vertical Photography and Cornwall’s National Mapping Programme. In: Hanson, W., Oltean, I. (eds) Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4505-0_7
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