Archaeology
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A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
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The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to dra... .... Learn More -
Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003-18 [Hardback]
David Griffiths (Author); Jane Harrison (Author); Michael Athanson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789250961
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The Bay of Skaill, Marwick Bay, and Birsay Bay form openings in the high sandstone cliffs of Orkney’s Atlantic coast. These west-facing bays have long been favoured locations for settlement, with access to the ocean, to fresh water, to land and to... .... Learn More -
A Riverine Site Near York: A Possible Viking Camp? [Paperback]
Gareth Williams (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592241
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 224
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The location known as ‘A Riverine Site Near York (ARSNY)’ represents a category of Viking site known from the historical record but one that until recently had remained largely undetected archaeologically: the Viking camp. The published investigat... .... Learn More -
Formative Britain: The Archaeology of Britain, AD 400-1100 [Paperback]
Martin Carver (Author)
£26.99ISBN: 9780415524759
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
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Formative Britain AD 400-1100 provides a detailed study of the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands between AD 400 and 1100. For the first time a single-author book treats early medieval Britain as a whole, enabling Carver to show that t... .... Learn More -
Exploring Celtic Origins [Hardback]
Barry Cunliffe (Editor); John Koch (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250886
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background i... .... Learn More -
Manx Crosses [Paperback]
David M. Wilson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781784917562
Published by : Archaeopress
The carved stone crosses of the Isle of Man of the late fifth to mid-eleventh century are of national and international importance. They provide the most coherent source for the early history of Christianity in the Island, and for the arriva... .... Learn More -
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture: Derbyshire and Staffordshire: 13 [Hardback]
Jane Hawkes (Author); Philip C. Sidebottom (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780197266212
Published by : Oxford University Press
This volume in the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture surveys the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire and provides an analytical catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures of that region. Introductory chapters set the material within historic... .... Learn More -
Links to Late Antiquity: Ceramic exchange and contacts on the Atlantic Seaboard in the 5th to 7th centuries AD [Paperback]
Maria Duggan (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9781407316390
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR BRITISH
Volume: 639
This publication began as an AHRC-funded doctoral thesis, ‘Links to Late Antiquity: Understanding Contacts on the Western Seaboard in the 5th to 7th Centuries’, completed at Newcastle University in 2016. This revised version presents a broad-scale... .... Learn More -
Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic [Hardback]
Arnved Nedkvitne (Author)
£115.00ISBN: 9780815366294
Published by : Routledge
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How could a community of 2-3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985 – 1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment met serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants met... .... Learn More -
An Intellectual Adventurer in Archaeology: Reflections on the work of Charles Thomas [Paperback]
Andy M Jones (Editor); Henrietta Quinnell (Editor)
£44.00ISBN: 9781784918613
Published by : Archaeopress
Charles Thomas (1928-2016) was a Cornishman and archaeologist, whose career from the 1950s spanned nearly seven decades. This period saw major developments that underpin the structures of archaeology in Britain today, in many of which he played a ... .... Learn More
