Since its publication by English Heritage in 2000, Brian Roberts
and Stuart Wrathmell’s An Atlas of Rural Settlement in England
has become a key point of reference for understanding the
development of rural settlement in England. The maps of 19th
century settlement and terrain from the Atlas are now available
as data that can be used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
software and viewed in ‘geobrowsers’ like the Google Earth*
mapping service. Andrew Lowerre's paper on the Atlas GIS has
been awarded the inaugural Computer Applications and
Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Recycle Award. The CAA
award recognises those who 'breathe new life into old data,' by
applying digital technologies or techniques that were not
envisaged by the original creators of the data, enabling new
discoveries or increasing the value of the data to researchers
and/or the general public. Atlas of Rural Settlement The maps in
the original, printed Atlas were produced digitally, but were
created as graphics files which cann