South West

A hidden medieval landscape has been revealed following the clear felling of conifers in Prior's Park Wood.

English Heritage is examining the extensive, but little studied, remains of Dartmoor's 18th- to 20th-century mining industry.

Earthworks surveyed at Barrington Court included the remains of a 16th- or early 17th-century formal garden and indicated the presence of a moat to the north of the present house.

A newly discovered stone row at Warcombe Water, on Exmoor, has been surveyed with the help of postgraduate students.

The Ridgeway was the focus for prehistoric activities for thousands of years. The earliest monuments are not well known and local volunteers are helping EH to record them in detail.

Analytical survey of the impressive 16th- to 18th-century garrison on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, is helping to protect this unique and internationally important site from coastal erosion.

Shoulsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort commanding the western approaches to Exmoor. It was opened up to the public under the CRoW Act and we were asked to carry out a survey to inform the National Park and local authority in making new access routes. The survey team has made an important new discovery of a Neolithic/early Bronze Age stone setting, one of a series unique to Exmoor.

Lodge Park, in Gloucestershire, is a unique landscape by Charles Bridgman. Once a deer park, it has an unusual 16th century grandstand from which spectators watched the sport of deer coursing. A study of earthworks surviving within the Park has revealed more about its early history as well as Bridgman's work.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Silbury Hill - Europe's largest prehistoric mound - might be quite well understood after 300 years of archaeological research. Not a bit! Our recent investigation, prompted by the collapse of an excavation dug in 1776, drew attention to some important and intriguing characteristics of the mound that have always previously been overlooked.

Brentor, with the tiny church of St Michael de Rupe clinging precariously to its summit, will be a familiar landmark to anyone who has travelled on Dartmoor. But the grassy humps and bumps surrounding the church are overlooked by most visitors and remain an enigma even to experts who know of their existence.