British Archaeology
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The Hoo Peninsula [Paperback]
Sarah Newsome (Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9781848022256
Published by : English Heritage
The book is intended to raise awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula landscape by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given the Hoo Peninsula... .... Learn More -
Landscapes from Antiquity [Paperback]
Simon Stoddart (Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9780953976201
Published by : Antiquity Publications
Series: Antiquity Papers
Volume: 1
This is the first volume of an exciting new project; Antiquity , drawing on its 75-year tradition of publishing articles of enduring value, has brought together twenty-four classic papers on a central archaeological theme. The papers have been se... .... Learn More -
Played in London: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play [Paperback]
Simon Inglis (Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781848020573
Published by : English Heritage
Series: PLAYED IN BRITAIN
From its first century Roman amphitheatre to the 21st century Olympic Stadium at Stratford, London has always been a city of spectacles and sporting fever.
In the 12th century crowds would gather at Smithfield to watch hor... .... Learn More -
Gristhorpe Man: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age [Hardback]
Nigel D. Melton (Editor); Christopher Knusel (Editor); Janet Montgomery (Editor)
Regular Price: $90.00
Special Price: $72.00
ISBN: 9781782972075
Published by : Oxbow Books
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin... .... Learn More -
Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1 [Hardback]
Gareth Chaffey (Author); Alistair Barclay (Author); Ruth Pelling (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781874350668
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Excavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, have provided an opportunity to investigate a large multi-period site with occupation dating back over 12,000 years. The immediate landscape was one of braided river channels for... .... Learn More -
Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation [Hardback]
Adrian M. Chadwick (Editor); Catriona D. Gibson (Editor)
Regular Price: $70.00
Special Price: $52.50
ISBN: 9781782973935
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Celtic Studies Publications 17
Memory and forgetting are fundamental to human existence and experiences of the world. Within archaeology, there has been increasing interest in the role of the past in the past. To date, however, there has been little specific di... .... Learn More -
Silbury Hill: The Largest Prehistoric Mound in Europe [Hardback]
Jim Leary (Author); David Field (Author); Gill Campbell (Author)
$200.00ISBN: 9781848020450
Published by : English Heritage
Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric mound in Europe, has long been an enigma. Set within the chalk downlands of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, it is traditionally thought to have been the burial place of King Si... .... Learn More -
Life in the Limes: Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers [Hardback]
Rob Collins (Editor); Frances McIntosh (Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781782972532
Published by : Oxbow Books
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subjec... .... Learn More -
Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North: An Archaeological Assessment [Hardback]
David Heslop (Author)
Regular Price: $90.00
Special Price: $72.00
ISBN: 9781842178140
Published by : Oxbow Books
Newcastle upon Tyne is one of England’s great cities. Many think of it simply as a product of the Industrial Revolution when abundant natural resources of coal, iron ore and water came together to create a Victorian industri... .... Learn More -
The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle [Paperback]
Anna Keay (Editor); John Watkins (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781848020344
Published by : English Heritage
The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It is also the best documented of all the great gardens of its age, providing the starting point for ... .... Learn More