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Fengate Revisited: Further Fen-edge Excavations, Bronze Age Fieldsystems and Settlement and the Wyman Abbott/Leeds Archives
by Christopher Evans, with Emma Beadsmoore, Matt Brudenell and Gavin Lucas
At its core, this volume reports upon three large-scale excavations at Fengate, Peterborough. These cast new light on Briton's premier Bronze Age fieldsystem and their results lead to significant reappraisal of facets of Pryor's earlier interpretations and, also, approaches to the period's land-use generally. Reflecting upon such crucial issues as the character of settlement, landholding/territory and power, their discussion is furthered by the ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Borderlands: The Archaeology of Addenbrooke's Environs, South Cambridge
by Christopher Evans, with Duncan Mackay and Leo Webley
Taking its inspiration from Cyril Fox's groundbreaking 1923 study of its namesake, and with its first volume issued to mark the 85th anniversary of his book, this series is dedicated to the archaeology of Cambridge's hinterland. In recent years an enormous amount of fieldwork has occured within the City's environs, to the point that it must now rank as one of the most intensively investigated landscapes in southern England.

This volume ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Excavations at Oatlands Palace, 1968-73 and 1983-4
by Rob Poulton
Oatlands Palace was created by Henry VIII, on the site of an earlier manor house, but demolished during the commonwealth in 1650. Research excavations began in 1968 in order to establish the exact site of the buildings (although their general location was known), their plan and their development. This work continued intermittently until 1973, and was followed by rescue excavations, which occurred when the housing estate that covered part of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00

Haltonchesters: Excavations Directed by J.P. Gillam at the Roman Fort, 1960-61
by J.N. Dore
This report presents the results of the excavations directed, in 1960 and 1961, by Mr J. P. Gillam within the fort at Haltonchesters. The work was carried out in the area to the south of the B6318 Newcastle to Carlisle road and to the west of the lane which runs from the B6318 to Halton village. Within this area lie the western part of the central range of the fort, a section of the west wall of the fort (including the porta quintana), the ...
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Four Millenia of Human Activity along the A505 Baldock Bypass, Hertfordshire
by Mark Phillips
This report presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in 20035 along the 6km route of the A505 Baldock bypass, Hertfordshire. The evidence spans the late Neolithic to the medieval period, although no evidence for activity from the later 5th century to the beginning of the 11th century was found. The late Neolithic evidence was dispersed across the route corridor and comprised bowl-shaped pits, shaft-like pits and a small ...
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Archaeological Excavations on the Route of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass West Sussex, 1992: Volume 1: Late Upper Palaeolithic-Anglo-Saxon
by A.P. Fitzpatrick, Andrew B. Powell and Michael J. Allen
Five main excavations and a number of smaller ones were undertaken in advance of the construction of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass near Chichester, West Sussex, in 1992. This volume presents the evidence for settlement and related evidence that spans 11,000 years from the Late Upper Palaeolithic to the medieval.

The sites examined included a Late Upper Palaeolithic palaeosol, two early Mesolithic residential base camps, isolated Early and ...
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Archaeology on the A303 Stonehenge Improvement
by Matt Leivers and Chris Moore
This volume reports on the archaeological works undertaken between 1998 and 2003 as part of the A303 Stonehenge Improvement highway scheme promoted by the Highways Agency.

The A303 trunk road and the A344 which pass Stonehenge are widely agreed to have a detrimental effect on its setting and on other archaeological features within the World Heritage Site. Around Stonehenge there is noise and visual intrusion from traffic and also air ...
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An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites along the Southern Range Road
by Chris Ellis and Andrew B. Powell
Construction of a tank road through part of Salisbury Plain, from Warminster to Tilshead, has revealed archaeological remains dating from the Neolithic up to the modern use of the Plain for military training. Excavation adjacent to Battlesbury Camp hillfort has uncovered Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age settlement activity including ditches, roundhouses, four-post structures and numerous pits. Some of the pits contained human burials, and other ...
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Unlocking the Landscape: Archaeological Investigations at Ashford Prison, Middlesex
by Tim Carew, Barry Biship, Frank Meddens and Victoria Ridgeway
Excavations at Ashford Prison, just to the east of Staines, uncovered the intriguing story of that part of the landscape from the end of the last Ice Age. Flowing through the site was a tributory of the River Ash, itself a tributory of the Thames. It attracted the attentions of transient groups of hunter-gatherers and later a Neolithic ceremonial monument was built adjacent to it, on a slight promontory of higher land. During the Bronze Age the ...
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The Romano-British Villa at Castle Copse, Great Bedwyn
edited by Eric Hostetter and Thomas Noble Howe
Results of the systematic study of the ruins of the large Roman courtyard villa at Castle Copse, southwest England. It includes overviews of the history and geography of the area, as well as a complete survey of the site - topography, geology, hydrology, and stratigraphy, and studies of the architecture, mosaics, wall painting and numerous finds. This research sheds light not just on the villa, but on the importance of associated sites as centres ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £41.95, Our Price GB £9.95