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Archaeological Finds: Guide to Identification

Shopland, Norena

Oxbow says: This practical and very easy-to-use guide presents a mass of quite basic but extremely useful information for anyone who wants to know more about the artefacts they have discovered and must look after, especially field archaeologists and find processors. Focusing on objects that are frequently found on excavations, Norena Shopland discusses how the objects should be handled, their distinguishing characteristics and, as a result, their date and function. Supported by lots of illustrations, the book discusses the types of organic and inorganic materials that are found, flint and how to identify whether it has been worked, pottery forms from the Neolithic to bone china, building materials, domestic debris, shoes and jewellery, horseshoes and tools for crafts, clay pipes and worked stone. Covering artefacts from prehistory through to the early modern period this book will be of huge use to all those diggers in need of a spotdate or simply wanting to know more about the things they find. 248p, many b/w illus (Tempus 2005)

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