The Best Prehistoric Landscape outside Wessex? The Archaeology of Therfield Heath

Nesting among what pioneering aerial archaeologist O G S Crawford called ‘the absurd little earthworks’ of Royston Golf Course is what he also considered ‘the best prehistoric landscape outside Wessex’.

Spanning more than 4000 years of human history, they include Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age monuments as well as medieval and later landscape features.