British Archaeology

The archaeology of Britain from the Palaeolithic to the present day, reporting on a wealth of excavations

An Atlas of Northamptonshire
£35.00
An Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest).
Colchester, Fortress of the War God

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This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester.
A Forged Glamour
£30.00
A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.
Is There a British Chalcolithic?
£39.95
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 phase is debated.
Iron Age Ritual, a Hillfort and Evidence for a Minster at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
£30.00
The excavation of an area within the grounds of the Prebendal, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, adjacent to the parish church of St Mary's, showed that the town, which lies on a slight spur, is sited within a univallate Iron Age hillfort.
Interpreting the English Village

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An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village.
Ariconium, Herefordshire

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The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood.

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  1. Excavations at Cill Donnain

    Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist [Hardback]

    Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Marek Zvelebil (Author)

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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
  2. Gristhorpe Man

    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
  3. Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1

    Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1 [Hardback]

    Gareth Chaffey (Author); Alistair Barclay (Author); Ruth Pelling (Author)

    £40.00

    ISBN: 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
  4. Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation

    Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation [Hardback]

    Adrian M. Chadwick (Editor); Catriona D. Gibson (Editor)

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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
  5. Life in the Limes

    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
  6. Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North

    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
  7. Counting People

    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
  8. The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle

    The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle [Paperback]

    Anna Keay (Editor); John Watkins (Author)

    £40.00

    ISBN: 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
  9. Roman roadside settlement and rural landscape at Brentford

    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)

    £15.00

    ISBN: 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
  10. Trinkets and Charms

    Trinkets and Charms: The use, meaning and significance of dress accessories, AD 1300–1700 [Hardback]

    Eleanor Rose Standley (Author)

    £35.00

    ISBN: 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

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