British Archaeology
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The Battle of Pinkie, 1547: The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England [Hardback]
David Caldwell (Author); Vicky Oleksy (Author); Bess Rhodes (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259735
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a well-documented battle with several eyewitness accounts and contemporary illustrations. There is also ... .... Learn More -
Ballynahatty: Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape [Hardback]
Barrie Hartwell (Editor); Sarah Gormley (Editor); Catriona Brogan (Editor); Caroline Malone (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259711
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Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring. For over a thousand years, this area was the focus of i... .... Learn More -
The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York: A Masterpiece of Tudor Craftsmanship [Hardback]
Peter N. Lindfield (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257922
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The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other equivalent example of secular domestic furniture is known to have survived, and, indeed, precious li... .... Learn More -
From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians: The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Llŷn Peninsula [Paperback]
Julian Maxwell Heath (Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427220
Published by : Windgather Press
Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Llŷn Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its stunning beaches and countryside, with much of its landscape designated as an Area of Outstanding Na... .... Learn More -
Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021: Structures, Their Uses, and Afterlives [Hardback]
Rob Collins (Author); Jane Harrison (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259445
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The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian’s Wall corridor between 2019 and 2021. The work focused on sites that were poorly understood or under particular threat and aimed... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland [Hardback]
Dale Serjeantson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259568
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Renowned archaeologist, Dale Serjeantson, tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to around AD 1650. In this book, she integrates the study of archaeological bird remains with ethnography and the history of ... .... Learn More -
Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale [Hardback]
Richard Osgood (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259384
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For those that survive, the traumas of military conflict can be long lasting. It might seem astonishing that archaeology, with its uncovering of the traces of the long-dead, of battlefields, of skeletal remains, could provide solace, and yet there... .... Learn More -
Topographical Writers in South-West England [Paperback]
Mark Brayshay (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859894241
Published by : The Exeter Press
A collection of essays concerned with topographical writers who published work on the west country between c. 1600 and 1900. It provides an assessment of some famous writers such as Leland, a guide to the sources for the west Country and an an... .... Learn More -
Somerset's Peatland Archaeology: Managing and Investigating a Fragile Resource [Hardback]
Richard Brunning (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174883
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The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and dis... .... Learn More -
The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape: Tradition, Deposition and Social Responses to Sea Level Rise [Hardback]
Andy M. Jones (Editor); Michael J. Allen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259230
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Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 14
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Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two projects at Mount’s Bay, Penwith. The first involved the excavation of a Bronze Age barrow and the second, environmental augur core sampling in Marazion Marsh. Both sites lie within... .... Learn More
