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Lincolnshire

The City by the Pool: Assessing the Archaeology of the City of Lincoln
by Michael J Jones, David Stocker and Alan Vince
This volume offers a new and up-to-date synthesis of Lincoln's long history as a major city and regional capital, from prehistory to 1945. The 'City by the Pool' was a major religious centre long before the Roman invasion and from bronze-age shamans to early Baptists people have always been attracted here for spiritual as well as mundane purposes. The authors argue for the presence of a major ritual causeway of the late Bronze and Iron Age and ...
Hardback. Price US$55.00

Archaeology of Wigford and the Brayford Pool
by Kate Steane, with Margeret J. Darling, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince, and Jane Young
The suburb of Wigford lies near the heart of the historic city of ?. Before excavations began in 1972, nothing was known of the prehistory of the area and so the arrival of the Roman army represented the first historic event. This volume publishes the results of the excavation of several sites, made possible by a series of urban development schemes. Each of the excavations differed in the extent and depth of the stratigraphy uncovered and each ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$110.00, Our Price US$39.98

St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire - A Parish Church and its Community: Volume 2 The Human Remains
by Tony Waldron with contributions by Warwick Rodwell
The excavations at St Peter's church, Barton-upon-Humber, between 1978 and 1984 have yielded the largest collection of human remains in the UK, dating from the late tenth century to the mid-nineteenth. The twin aims of the project were to understand the architectural history and setting of this complex, multi-period building (Volume 1), and to recover a substantial sample of the population for palaeopathological study (Volume 2). An extensive ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00

The Archaeology of The Upper City and Adjacent Suburbs
by Kate Steane, with Margaret J Darling, Michael J Jones, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince, and Jane Young
This volume contains reports on sites excavated in the upper walled city at Lincoln and adjacent suburbs between 1972 and 1987. The project included large-scale excavations which yielded some stunning finds and revealed considerable information about several periods of the city's history. Each site is described in turn, incorporating stratigraphic, artefactual and environmental information, and the common threads are brought together in a general ...
Hardback. Price US$65.00

On the Boundaries of Occupation: Excavations at Burringham Road, Scunthorpe and Baldwin Avenue, Bottesford, North Lincolnshire
by Peter Boyer, Jennifer Proctor, and Robin Taylor-Wilson
Excavations at two sites in the southern suburbs of the modern industrial town of Scunthorpe, originally a rural landscape with a scatter of villages overlooking the River Trent and its tributary, Bottesford Beck. Finds of flint tools show that humans had been around throughout prehistory; by the late Iron Age the Burringham Road site probably lay at the southern limit of a settlement, and for much of the Roman period there is evidence of various ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00

Cleethorpes: The Creation of a Seaside Resort
by Alan Dowling
Cleethorpes was originally three small farming and fishing hamlets on the Lincolnshire coast, which later combined and eventually developed into a thriving seaside resort. This book examines the early history of the hamlets, and the reader is taken on a journey through their years as a quiet bathing place, when transport posed difficulties to potential holidaymakers. The railway revolutionised Cleethorpes, making it a favourite venue for the ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00

Lincolnshire Salterns: Excavations at Helpringham, Holbech St. Johns and Bicker Haven
by Antony Bell, David Gurney and Hilary Healey
A series of four reports on salt-making sites in Lincolnshire: the Iron Age site of Helpringham Fen; The Romano-British site at Shellbridge, Holbech St Johns; the Medieval site of Bicker Haven. Includes detailed information and illustrations of the excavations and finds, presenting new information and discussions on this subject. 108p, b/w figs and pls (EAA 89, 1999)
Paperback. Price US$32.00

Excavations at a Templar Preceptory: South Witham, Lincolnshire 1965-67
by Philip Mayes
The excavations at South Witham in Lincolnshire produced the most complete archaeological plan of the preceptory of the Military Orders so far seen in Britain. Before 1965 there had been only limited investigation of Knights Templar houses and evidence ...
Paperback. Price US$49.00

Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air
edited by Robert H Bewley
Papers on the aerial archaeology features from prehistoric linear boundaries to medieval and post-medieval salt extraction sites. 106p, b/w figs (Soc for Lincolshire Archaeology & History/RCHME 1998)
Paperback. Price US$25.50

Of Butchers and Breeds: Report on vertebrate remains from various sites in the city of Lincoln
by K. M. Dobney, S. D. Jaques and B. G. Irving
This report offers a synthesis of the vertebrate material from a range of excavated sites in Lincoln, a compilation which has enabled the construction of a city-wide framework of economic, industrial and social activities from the Roman period to more ...
Paperback. Price US$51.00