British Archaeology
-
Farming, Everyday Life and Ritual: 6000 years of archaeological at Thanet Earth [Paperback]
Jake Weekes (Editor); James Holman (Editor); Robert Masefield (Editor); Jonathan Rady (Editor); Jakes Weekes (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781870545440
Published by : Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In the late 2000s, the development of the country’s biggest glasshouse complex by Fresca Group Ltd at Monkton Road Farm on Isle of Thanet led to one of the largest open area excavations ever conducted in Kent. The development covered 90 hectares (... .... Learn More -
EAA 178: Hinxton, Cambridgeshire: Part I: Excavations at the Wellcome Genome Campus: Late Glacial Lithics to the Icknield Way [Paperback]
Alice Lyons (Author); Lawrence Billington (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781907588136
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 178
Extensive archaeological investigations were undertaken over two decades in Hinxton, south Cambridgeshire by OA East on behalf of the Wellcome Trust. The excavated areas lay in the Cam valley, a ‘borderland zone’ crossed by Icknield Way; the ridge... .... Learn More -
Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale [Hardback]
Richard Osgood (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781789259384
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
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
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 to provide opportunit... .... Learn More -
Ballynahatty: Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape [Hardback]
Barrie Hartwell (Editor); Sarah Gormley (Editor); Catriona Brogan (Editor); Caroline Malone (Editor)
£58.00ISBN: 9781789259711
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 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)
£35.00ISBN: 9781789259735
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
Road to the Manor: Excavations at Graven Hill, Oxfordshire, 2015–2016 [Paperback]
Martyn Allen (Author); Steve Teague (Author); Steve Lawrence (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780904220919
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 35
Oxford Archaeology undertook a series of excavations in 2015–16 at Graven Hill on the former site of MoD Bicester, a large military storage and distribution centre built during the Second World War. The archaeological works revealed evidence of pr... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland [Hardback]
Dale Serjeantson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781789259568
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape: Tradition, Deposition and Social Responses to Sea Level Rise [Hardback]
Andy M. Jones (Author); Michael J. Allen (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781789259230
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 14
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)
£35.00ISBN: 9781789257922
Published by : Oxbow Books
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