Landmarks in the West Midlands feature among more than 400,000 photos uploaded by Historic England.
The Encaustic tile works, the Royal Staffordshire Pottery and the Newport Pottery, in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, as seen in 1934
Landmarks in the West Midlands region feature among more than 400,000 aerial photographs being made available online., which allows people to examine how landscapes have changed during 100 years.Images will be added as more of the six million aerial photos in the Historic England archive are digitised.
Also included is the medieval Blithewood moated site in Staffordshire. Historic England said the moats were intended as a status symbol rather than defence and also stated that most moated sites were built between 1250 and 1350.In one image, a long rectangular shape marks the presence of a Neolithic cursus at Sherbourne, Warwickshire, with cursus monuments "generally thought of as enclosed paths or processional ways", Historic England said.
To the right of the cursus is a larger enclosure with curved sides and a smaller curved enclosure inside. It is thought to be surrounding a farmstead dating roughly from the Iron Age or Roman periods.
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