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The Architecture of Sir Ernest George
by Hilary J. Grainger
Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of England's greatest architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialised in domestic work and was responsible for beautiful and imaginative houses in both town and country, and with his three successive partners, he carried out over 200 works both in Britain and abroad. He was also a watercolourist of considerable stature whose work in the medium was acclaimed in his own time. This richly ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £65.00
Fiskerton: An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age and Roman Votive Offerings
Field, N.
Fiskerton, located in the Witham valley of Lincoln, is one of only a handful of excavated sites in Europe to reveal the Iron Age practice of ritually destroying special and elite objects by placing them in a body of water. This volume reports on the 1981 excavations on the bank of the River Witham and provides fascinating insights into this important aspect of Iron Age religion and culture. A remarkable group of Iron Age and Roman artefacts was ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
Matrix: A Collection of British Seals
by David Morris
A remarkable and lavishly illustrated selection of 145 historic hand and desk seals from a significant and previously undocumented private collection. These seals are mainly from Great Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world, and they range from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Some are fine and rare, others are more modest and domestic. Between them they represent all fields of activity and all levels of society, encompassing ...
Hardback. Price GB £95.00
Salisbury: A Walk in the City
by Sue Finniss and John Elliott
Salisbury is unsurpassed in Britain for its sheer elegance, though the wonders of the city are often obscured by the magnificence of the cathedral and its spire. In this book Sue Finniss corrects this imbalance and demonstrates her excellence as a watercolour artist with a series of spectacular views of buildings in the city. Each of the paintings is beautifully executed and is accompanied by an informative architectural and historical ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.95
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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.95
Coins from the Soil: a guide to the buried coinage of Britain
by Michael Cuddeford
An illustrated guide to the coins likely to be found by anyone using a metal detector in Britain. Ranges from Iron Age and Roman to the current decimal coinage with an ilustration, in colour, of the standard types. Also briefer notes on tokens, jettons and forgeries. 96 pages. (Mount Publications 2008)
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History
by Francis Pryor
Oxbow says: Following on from his highly acclaimed books Britain BC and Britain AD, Francis Pryor now shows that he is equally at home talking about the Middle Ages. Known principally as a prehistorian, it is perhaps his background as a prehistorian, and as an archaeologist rather than a historian, that makes Britain in the Middle Ages such a refreshing read. Focusing more on archaeology and longer processes of change ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.99
The Fairest Arch in England: Old Ouse Bridge, York, and its Buildings. The Pictorial Evidence
by Barbara Wilson and Frances Mee
The first bridge to span the River Ouse in York was built by the Romans. Then, and in the medieval period, the river remained an essential lifeline of communication, an important facilitator for transport and trade and a place to obtain drinking water. This supplementary volume to The Archaeology of York series looks at bridges past and present, though focusing primarily on the Tudor bridge built in 1565 and dismantled from 1810-1818. ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.95
Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic: Landscape, Monuments and Memory
by Mark Edmonds
How did earlier Neolithic people understand the world in which they lived? Britain in the 4th millennium was populated by small dispersed communities; communities united by the common threads of kinship and ancestry, yet divided by conflict arising from the same source; theirs was a world in which the dead were a powerful presence and each man played an integral part in rites and ceremony. Their interpretation of the land and of themselves must ...
Paperback. Print on Demand. Price GB £24.99
Hardback. Price GB £85.00
The Hulks of Forton Lake, Gosport: the Forton Lake Archaeology Project 2006-2009
by Mark Beattie-Edwards and Julie Satchell
This volume publishes the results of a community archaeology project led by the Nautical Archaeology Society and the HWTMA to investigate vessels abandoned in Forton Lake, a creek off Portsmouth Harbour. The project researched in detail the archaeology ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00
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