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The Finest Prospect is now available as a full colour book.

This colourful book, packed with vivid images, illustrates half a million years of the remarkable human story in south Essex at the heart of the Thames Gateway.

Much of the evidence that archaeologists have used to tell this tale has been recovered by excavations made during quarrying and building over the past hundred years.

The varied landscape and numerous creeks and estuaries of south Essex have proved an attractive place to settle for thousands of years and the Thames estuary provided a route to Europe and the wider world.

The Finest Prospect traces how the landscape we know today was created from a patchwork of roads, quarries, railways, woods, towns, docks, marshes, villages and farms. It covers everything from the geology that formed the landscape to the quaint 'Plotlands' of the 20th century, from submerged prehistoric forests to Southend Pier.

If, as a 21st century browser, you want to understand what made south Essex what it is, this is the place to start.

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"The finest prospect" The Archaeology of South Essex was written by Nigel Brown and Roger Massey-Ryan. It is a soft-back edition in A4 landscape format with 76 full colour pages. It is published by Essex County Council and is available post free (in the UK) for £10.00 per copy. You can send a cheque made payable to Essex County Council to Rita Chalkley, Historic Environment Branch, Essex County Council, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1QH. Telephone 01245 437652.

Why not look at other Essex County Council heritage publications? Click here for a pdf.

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This page was posted on 15th April 2005