Antiquity at the National Memorial Arboretum

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5700986
AutoresHoward Williams (0000-0003-3510-6852, University of Chester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen20
Número4
Páginas393-414
Fecha de publicación2014-05-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2012.757556
OpenAlexW2021293895
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas18

The paper explores the use of ancient and historic material cultures and architectures within the recent resurgence in public commemoration in the UK. Using the case study of the National Memorial Arboretum (Staffordshire), the study focuses on how ancient designs (including prehistoric, classical and medieval styles and forms) interleave with the arboreal, geological and celestial themes of the memorial gardens. Together these designs serve to create a multitude of temporal poises by which auras of commemorative perpetuity and regeneration are projected and sustained. The paper proposes that archaeologists can bring their expertise to bear on the investigation of the complex, varied allusions to the past within contemporary landscapes of memory

Arboreal locomotion · Archaeology · Multitude · Perpetuity · Prehistory · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeological Research and Protection · History · Law · Ecology