Britain & Ireland
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Animating the Dead: Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney [Hardback]
Jane Downes(Editor)
Regular Price: $59.99
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ISBN: 9781789255584
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book brings together the results of the Orkney Barrows Project, initiated and directed by Jane Downes and funded by Historic Environment Scotland. The barrows sites detailed and discussed in the volume are Linga Fiold, a barrow cemetery in We... .... Learn More -
High Pasture Cave: Ritual, Memory and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye [Hardback]
S.A. Birch(Author); J.T. Mackenzie(Author); G. Cruickshanks(Author)
Regular Price: $75.00
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ISBN: 9781785709500
Published by : Oxbow Books
High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal location on the very edge of a settlement and appears to have been a focus for specific and special activities. Its extended period of use is indicated by ephemeral sig... .... Learn More -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New discoveries at the edge of Europe [Paperback]
Jessica Smyth(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258820
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 6
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. T... .... Learn More -
The Snettisham Hoards [Paperback]
Julia Farley(Editor); Jody Joy(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592258
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 225
For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hunstanton. The location of the discoveries, at Ken Hill, is known as the ‘gold field’ beca... .... Learn More -
The First Stones: Penywyrlod, Gwernvale and the Black Mountains Neolithic Long Cairns of South-East Wales [Paperback]
William Britnell(Editor); Alasdair Whittle(Editor)
Regular Price: $55.00
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ISBN: 9781789257397
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book brings together the results of recent research on the Neolithic long cairns lying in the shadow of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales, focusing upon Penywyrlod and Gwernvale, the two best known tombs within the group, previously exc... .... Learn More -
Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade [Hardback]
Rebecca Scott(Editor); Andrew Shaw(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789251524
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 10
The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gathe... .... Learn More -
Preserved in the Peat: An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context [Paperback]
Andy M. Jones(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258783
Published by : Oxbow Books
Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artifacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed w... .... Learn More -
Clachtoll: An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland [Hardback]
Graeme Cavers(Editor)
Regular Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 9781789258479
Published by : Oxbow Books
Clachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements on the northern mainland of Scotland. When it became clear that the structure was threatened by coastal erosion, community heritage group Historic Assynt launched a major program ... .... Learn More -
Horton Kingsmead Quarry: Volume 1 [Hardback]
Gareth Chaffey(Author); Alistair Barclay(Author); Ruth Pelling(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781874350668
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Series: Wessex Archaeology Reports
Volume: 32
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 much of later pr... .... Learn More -
Between and Beyond the Monuments: Prehistoric activity on the downlands south-east of Amesbury. [Hardback]
Andrew Powell(Author); Alistair Barclay(Author)
$43.51ISBN: 9781874350903
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Series: Wessex Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 36
This book reports on the prehistoric archaeology revealed by investigations of a large area of Chalk downland south-east of Amesbury, Wiltshire. Excavations on the site between 1993 and 2015 revealed Neolithic monumental features, a significant nu... .... Learn More
