British Archaeology
The archaeology of Britain from the Palaeolithic to the present day, reporting on a wealth of excavations
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village.
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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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Clachtoll: An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland [Hardback]
Graeme Cavers (Editor)
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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 programm... .... Learn More -
English Orchards: A Landscape History [Paperback]
Gerry Barnes (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427190
Published by : Windgather Press
Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connec... .... Learn More -
EAA 177: Living with Monuments: Excavations at Flixton vol II [Paperback]
Stuart Boulter (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780993454585
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 177
Flixton Park Quarry lies in Suffolk on the south side of the Waveney Valley, on land that has been subject to aggregate extraction for many decades. Historically there was virtually no archaeological recording but the areas opened up since 1995 ha... .... Learn More -
EAA 176: Fransham: People and land in a central Norfolk parish from the Palaeolithic to the eve of Parliamentary Enclosure [Paperback]
Andrew Rogerson (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780905594576
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 176
Fransham: people and land attempts to illustrate, and where possible explain, the many great changes in settlement pattern and land-use that took place in one Norfolk clayland parish from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period. Archaeo... .... Learn More -
London Gateway: Settlement, Farming and Industry from Prehistory to the Present in the Thames Estuary: Archaeological Investigations at DP World London Gateway Port and Logistics Park, Essex, and on the Hoo Peninsula, Kent [Hardback]
Edward Biddulph (Author); Stuart Foreman (Author); Christopher Hayden (Author); Cynthia Poole (Author); Kirsty Smith (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780904220810
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 31
Archaeological investigations were carried out by Oxford Archaeology between 2008 and 2016 within DP World London Gateway Port and Logistics Park near Stanford-le-Hope in Essex and on the site of a compensatory wildlife habitat on the Hoo Peninsul... .... Learn More -
The Patients’ Story: Dr Radcliffe's Legacy in the Age of Hospitals – Excavations at the 18th–19th Century Radcliffe – Infirmary Burial Ground, Oxford [Paperback]
Louise Loe (Author); Helen Webb (Author); Andrew Simmonds (Author); Daniel Poore (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780904220889
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 32
Excavations at the site of the burial ground of the old Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, revealed the largest assemblage of individual burials yet recovered from an 18th/19th century hospital site in Britain. Founded in 1770 with funds from the estate... .... Learn More -
St Paul's Cathedral: Archaeology and History [Paperback]
John Schofield (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258059
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is the first volume concerned solely with the archaeology of a major late 17th-century building in London, and the major changes it has undergone. St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London was built in 1675-1711 to the designs of Sir Christop... .... Learn More -
Fragments of the Bronze Age: The Destruction and Deposition of Metalwork in South-West Britain and its Wider Context [Hardback]
Matthew G. Knight (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789256970
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 13
The destruction and deposition of metalwork is a widely recognised phenomenon across Bronze Age Europe. Weapons were decommissioned and thrown into rivers; axes were fragmented and piled in hoards; and ornaments were crushed, contorted and placed ... .... Learn More -
The Castle Hill Brickworks and Somerhill Estate: Post-Medieval Discoveries on the A21 Tonbridge-to-Pembury Dualling Scheme, Kent [Hardback]
Tim Allen (Author); Toby Martin (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780904220896
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 33
Excavation by Oxford Archaeology for the A21 Tonbridge to Pembury Dualling Scheme in Kent uncovered the well-preserved remains of a 19th-century rural estate brickworks, very few examples of which still survive. The Castle Hill Brickworks was esta... .... Learn More -
Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain [Hardback]
Anwen Cooper (Author); Duncan Garrow (Author); Catriona Gibson (Author); Melanie Giles (Author); Neil Wilkin (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789257472
Published by : Oxbow Books
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumatio... .... Learn More
