British Archaeology
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Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Marek Zvelebil (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
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ISBN: 9781782976271
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 9
The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted ... .... Learn More -
Gristhorpe Man: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age [Hardback]
Nigel D. Melton (Editor); Christopher Knusel (Editor); Janet Montgomery (Editor)
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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)
£40.00ISBN: 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: £38.00
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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 -
Life in the Limes: Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers [Hardback]
Rob Collins (Editor); Frances McIntosh (Editor)
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ISBN: 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)
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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 -
Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local and Family Historians [Paperback]
John Moore (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174807
Published by : Oxbow Books
Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical work, obviously in population history but also in local studies of... .... Learn More -
The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle [Paperback]
Anna Keay (Editor); John Watkins (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 Eng... .... Learn More -
Roman roadside settlement and rural landscape at Brentford: Archaeological investigations at London Syon Park Waldorf Astoria 2004–10 [Paperback]
Robert Cowie (Author); Amy Thorp (Author); Angela Wardle (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781907586194
Published by : Museum of London Archaeology
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Volume: 29
Excavations in Syon Park, Brentford, have made a substantial contribution to our knowledge of this Roman rural settlement on the London–Silchester road, by a ford across the Thames. The site yielded a well-dated sequence &nd... .... Learn More -
Trinkets and Charms: The use, meaning and significance of dress accessories, AD 1300–1700 [Hardback]
Eleanor Rose Standley (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781905905300
Published by : Oxford University School of Archaeology
Series: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph Series
Volume: 78
This publication presents a study of a wide range of evidence to reveal the use and meaning of dress accessories in daily life in two regions of Britain, c. AD 1300-1700. Dress accessory evidence from a variety of sites is brought... .... Learn More

