British Archaeology
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Art, Image, Power and Place: Contextualising the Stone Sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Sarah Semple (Editor); Jane Hawkes (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258981
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Early medieval stone sculptures survive across Europe: at waysides, in architectural settings and in churches and graveyards, and provide an exceptional source for understanding the aesthetics and beliefs of early medieval communities. England is ... .... Learn More -
Burials and the Black Death in Hereford: New Library Excavation, Hereford Cathedral [Hardback]
Derek Hurst (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258684
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Excavation at Hereford Cathedral took place in 1993, prior to the construction of the Mappa Mundi Museum and new archive library. This revealed extensive remains, some potentially dating back to the 7th/8th century, including timber-built building... .... 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 -
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 Battle of Pinkie, 1547: The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England [Hardback]
David H. Caldwell (Author); Victoria Oleksy (Author); Bess Rhodes (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781789259735
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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 -
The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland [Hardback]
Dale Serjeantson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259568
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The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to about AD 1650. It is based on archaeological bird remains integrated with ethnography and the history ... .... Learn More -
Ballynahatty: Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape [Hardback]
Barrie Hartwell (Editor); Sarah Gormley (Editor); Catriona Brogan (Editor); Caroline Malone (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 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 -
Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2022 [Paperback]
Rob Collins (Author); Jane Harrison (Author); Ian Kille (Author); Kathryn Murphy (Author); Kerry Shaw (Author)
£12.95ISBN: 9781789259599
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The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to promote the value of heritage – specifically of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site – to local communities and provide opportunities ... .... Learn More -
The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape (PSRP): 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 -
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