The project is concerned with increasing public participation in landscape archaeology and, unusually, palaeoenvironmental studies, with the aim of dispelling the myth that archaeology is only about excavation and 'finds'. This incorporated training in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the archiving of data. It proposed to provide for the public’s growing fascination with archaeology whilst increasing the public’s understanding of the archaeological sciences through active participation in landscape studies and palaeoenvironmental fieldwork and all whilst still producing meaningful research as a key output.  Here the aims of the project were to promote greater public appreciation for a landscape incorrectly perceived by the public as lacking in archaeological potential in comparison with the uplands of Dartmoor and Exmoor. By way of a long-term objective, it was anticipated that an increase in direct participation would promote a greater awareness and understanding of Devon’s archaeological heritage and thereby encourage better preservation of the heritage. In the same vein it was hoped that long-term awareness could be encouraged by the project team actively taking archaeology into the schools of Devon.