| Summary: | This thesis is inspired by Historic Landscape Characterisation, a landscape assessment programme conducted by English Heritage and local county councils over the past decade and a half. Currently no comparable programme exists in Icelandic heritage practice, and in this thesis I developed a methodology of historic characterisation and applied it to Grímsnes- & Grafningshreppur, a district in the south-west of Iceland. The principal result of the characterisation was compiled in a GIS database of some 1300 entries, represented with maps throughout the thesis.
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