Grounded: a journey into the landscapes of our ancestors

REVIEW BY JOE FLATMAN Grounded is a book that will divide opinion. Rarely as a reviewer have I read something that I was so unsure about at the end. It is a highly personal travelogue through the archaeology of south and east England, primarily in East Anglia and, to a lesser extent, in Wessex, especially Wiltshire. It ranges widely in time and place, visiting sites from prehistory to the present day, including everything from modern-day churches to Bronze Age burial mounds. It also includes much insight into the life of the author as part of his reflections on the place of historic sites – especially ‘landscape’ sites like barrows, as places of continuity of sacred practice down th