Preface and Acknowledgements.
0. The Dawning of the Tenth Wave: A Prologue to the Eight Essays.
1. Of Hillforts and Homesteads: Settlement Patterns in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
2. See, The Conquering Bureaucrat Comes: Roman-British Settlement Patterns, c. 150 AD.
3. To Be, Then Not To Be: Th e Demise of the Hamlet in England, 850?1086.
4. A Small Town in Gloucestershire: Cirencester and the International Wool Trade.
5. Travels with Mr Defoe and Some Others: Journeys Through Britain’s Pre-Industrial Settlement Patterns.
6. Towards Hyper-Polycentricity: Or What a Giant Fungus Can Teach Us About Settlement Patterns.
7. The Uses of Consolatory Fables: How Computer Models Can Help Us Understand Settlement Patterns.
8. Biography of an Island Foretold. Bibliography. Index.