Cropmarks

Here are entered works on patterns or variations in crop growth that are the result of buried archaeological sites or components of such sites. Works on inexplicable, flattened patterns in fields or crops are entered under [Crop circles.]

found: Work cat.: Dunwell, A.J. The management of cropmark archaeology in lowland Scotland, c2008: p. 5 (Cropmark site. A buried archaeological site that has been discovered from the air through the detection of its component features being expressed in detectable patterns in the ripening crop; cropmarks are most readily visible from the air)

found: Pickering, J. Past worlds in a landscape, 1985:t.p. (archaeological crop marks in Leicestershire)

found: Concise Oxford dictionary of archaeology via WWW, June 24, 2008(Cropmark. Patterns or variations in the colour or growth rates of cereals or other planted crops (including peas, grass, etc.) that are visible from the air, or on a photographic image taken from the air, and which are usually caused by the differential effects on plant ecology of below-ground disturbances or soil enrichment of some kind. Often these relate to archaeological features such as buried ditches and pits and thus provide a proxy indicator of what lies within or beneath the ground)

Here are entered works on patterns or variations in crop growth that are the result of buried archaeological sites or components of such sites. Works on inexplicable, flattened patterns in fields or crops are entered under [Crop circles.]