1 Starting Points 1 -- 2 Ways of Seeing: Methods for the Analysis of a Landscape 20 -- 3 Once Upon a Time: From the Hunter-Gatherers of the Mesolithic to the Agricultural Communities of the Iron Age 56 -- 4 In the Shadow of an Empire: Life and Landscape during Roman Times, AD 43-c. AD 350 92 -- 5 Postholes and People: From the End of the Roman Empire to the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 350-c. AD 800 130 -- 6 A Village Moment? Shapwick Before the Norman Conquest, c. AD 800-1100 161 -- 7 Manor and Abbey: Schapewik in the Later Medieval Period, 1100-1539 196 -- 8 After the Dissolution: Post-Medieval Shapwick, 1539-1750 254 -- 9 Make Way for Tomorrow: Shapwick Yesterday and Today 294 -- 10 Wider Contexts 351