Britain & Ireland

ISBN: 9780199548064
Published by : Oxford University Press
This study attempts to connect Celtic art to its archaeological context, looking at how it was made, used, and deposited. Based on the first comprehensive database of Celtic art, it brings together current theories concerning the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174692
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CARDIFF STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174951
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: PREHISTORIC SOCIETY RESEARCH PAPERS
Volume: 5
Leading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers in honour of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric archaeology that have defined his career, such as monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material worlds and field practice. T... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780904220704
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 17
Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity spa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174968
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: PREHISTORIC SOCIETY RESEARCH PAPERS
Volume: 4
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and whether there is even a definable ph... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174609
Published by : Oxbow Books
The final publication of results of the excavations at Pontnewydd cave in north-east Wales has been eagerly awaited. The site was investigated as part of the Palaeolithic Settlement of Wales Research Programme, which has been responsible for t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407309606
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A Gazetteer representing practical field observations of most of the prehistoric Standing Stones in Great Britain and some Other Stones which post-date AD 1. The list also includes 34 prehistoric Standing Stones known to be extant... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848684201
Published by : Amberley Publishing
From the camps and caves occupied by hunter-gatherer groups visiting the area during the last Ice Age, through the long barrows and camps of the first farmers, to the massive hillforts and enclosures built by Celtic chieftains in the centuries ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848020054
Published by : English Heritage
The Raunds Area Project investigated more than 20 Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Nene Valley. From c 5000 BC to the early 1st millennium cal BC a succession of ritual mounds and burial mounds were built as settlement along the valley... .... Learn More