"Part I: The heathlands in prehistory 1 The Pebblebed landscape 2 George Carter and the archaeology of East Devon 3 Early Bronze Age pebble cairns 4 Analysis of the pebbles 5 The poetics of pebbles 6 Burnt mounds and pebble sculptures 7 The value of pebbles in an original affluent society 8 How landscape defines communities in prehistory: an environmental reconstruction of the prehistoric Pebblebeds landscape 9 Signing the land: Woodbury Castle and hilltop enclosures in the Iron Age of East Devon Part II: The heathlands in modernity 10 Landscaping the heathlands 11 Early military occupation and use of the heathlands 12 The embodied poetics of a nineteenth-century heathlands landscape 13 A vernacular pebbled landscape 14 The heathlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries 15 Woven flame and pebble grid: an artist's interaction with archaeology and the heathlands 16 Conclusions: the longue durée and a theory of pebbles in a pebbled landscape".