MONUMENTS OF WAR - DEFINING ENGLAND 20TH-CENTURY DEFENSE HERITAGE

The editor of ANTIQUITY remembers travelling, as a child, on the main A1 highway to see relatives in southeast England, watching the banks o f sharp-nosed Bloodhound missiles ranged close by the road - pointing east, to meet incoming Soviet bombers. The obsolete monuments of the C old War and before that of the Second World War, are history now famou sly the Berlin Wall (Baker 1993 in ANTIQUITY). Many, like the concrete runways of the airfields, are so solidly built they are not lightly r emoved. These remains of England's 20th-century defence heritage are n ot well understood. However, and contrary to popular belief, they do h ave a large documentation; and it is this, the authors argue, that sho uld form the basis for systematic review.