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Prehistoric Britain

Appleford's Earliest Farmers: Archaeological Work at Appleford Sidings Oxfordshire
by Paul Booth and Andrew Simmonds
From 1993-2000 Oxford Archaeology examined a sequence of rural landscapes at Hanson Aggregates' Sutton Courtenay Pit ahead of gravel extraction. The earliest of these, a rectilinear system of trackways and field enclosures, with associated waterholes for animals, devleoped from about 1500 BC. Probably contemporary cremation burials lay close by. No significant later prehistoric evidence was found, but about the middle of the 1st century AD a ...
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Britain's Oldest Art: The Ice Age Cave Art of Cresswell Crags
by Paul Bahn and Paul Pettitt
Creswell Crags, located on the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire border, is a limestone gorge honeycombed with caves and smaller fissures, and was among the most northerly places on earth to have been visited by our ancient ancestors, a story that is unique on a European and World Scale. In 2003 Britain's first Ice Age cave art was discovered at Creswell Crags by Paul Bahn, Paul Pettitt and Sergio Ripoll, a discovery billed as one of the most ...
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Digging Up the Ice Age: Recognising, Recording and Understanding Fossil and Archaeological Remains Found in British Quarries
by Simon Buteux, Jenni Chambers and Barbara Silva
The sands and gravels laid down by rivers contain perhaps the most important archieves of the Ice Age that we possess, in the form of sediments, fossils and human artefacts. Quarrying opens up these archives. It enables Ice Age climates, environments, plants and animals to be reconstructed in remarkable detail. It shines a light on human evolution. However, quarrying is also destructive. Only if we know what to look for, and make a positive ...
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Exchange and Ritual at the Riverside: Late Bronze Age Life in the Lower Witham Valley at Washingborough, Lincolnshire
by Carol Allen
Late Bronze Age waterlogged remains were first investigated at Washingborough back in 1973, but thirty-one years then passed before flood alleviation works by the Environment Agency prompted renewed interest in the area. This monograph explores Late Bronze Age life in a liminal zone, where periodic, ceremonial gatherings took place on the north bank of the river, involving metalworking, brewing, manufacturing, feasting and exchange. These ...
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From Bronze Age Enclosure to Anglo-Saxon Settlement: Archaeological Excavations at Taplow Hillfort, Buckinghamshire, 1999-2005
by Tim Allen, Chris Hayden and Hugo Lamdin-Whymark
Recent excavations at Taplow Court have revealed a long sequence of activity stretching from the Mesolithic to the Anglo-Saxon period. Mesolithic struck flints and charred hazelnuts, and early Neolithic flints, were found in a small number of tree-throw holes. A group of inter-cutting hollows or shallow pits of Early Bronze Age date included sherds of Collared Urn and worked flint, rare evidence of domestic activity of this period. There were ...
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The Iron Age Round-House
by D.W. Harding
In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centres, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settlement sites, and especially by houses of circular ground-plan, apparently in marked contrast to the Central and Northern European tradition of rectangular houses. In lowland Britain the evidence for timber round-houses comprises the footprint of ...
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A Later Iron Age and Romano-British Farmstead Settlement, Pegswood Moor, Morpeth
by Jennifer Proctor, edited by Victoria Ridgeway
Pegswood Moor Farm lies on the Northumberland Coastal Plain in an area which until relatively recently was thought to have been sparsely occupied during later prehistory. However, as this publication clearly demonstrates, this area was as densely settled in these periods as any other part of the region.

Sporadic visiting of the site occurred from the Mesolithic/early Neolithic into the Bronze Age, but significant habitation commenced at ...
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Lindow Man
by Jody Joy
This compact book, packed with glorious colour photography joins a series on the stand out holdings of the British Museum. It describes the discovery, conservation and analysis of the corpse of Lindow Man, Britain's best preserved bog body, dating to the late Iron Age. The book also looks at the modern reconstruction of Lindow Man's face, and how this was done, as well as the evidence for diet, medical history and for his brutal death, examined ...
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Neolithic and Early Historic Settlement in North Northumberland
by Roger Miket, Benjamin Edwards, Ben Johnson and Clive Waddington
This volume reprints two reports from the 2008 issue of the Archaeological Journal, each detailing major excavations which took place at sites close to each other on opposite sides of an ancient wetland known as the Galewood Depression in the Milfield Basin. Excavations at Thirlings revealed very extensive pit and post-pit features of Neolithic date as well as a substantial Neolithic pottery assemblage. At Cheviot Quarry meanwhile ...
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Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain
by Stan Beckensall
In this latest book the prolific Stan Beckensall returns to his principal specialism, Britains prehistoric rock art. Beckensall has played a key role in recording and researching rock art, and in this book he brings this experience to bear in a detailed survey of the types of rock art, motifs and patterns to be found in Britain and the places, often highly prominent in the landscape where it is to be found. He also offers his thoughts on its ...
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