Today the number of pitchstone-bearing sites in northern Britain has multiplied several times and approximately 20,300 worked pieces from c. 350 sites have been found; pitchstone artefacts have been r
This study considers the production and consumption of pewter, in particular pewter tableware in Roman Britain. It contains a catalogue of all known finds of pewter tableware, as well as all known pew
This is a study of the maritime dimension of transport, to and from the military installations and civilian settlements of the coasts and rivers of the west of Britain, where water was used as the mea
This volume tests a new model (Time Geography) which stresses the importance of both space and time in the understanding of social processes, to investigate the concept of innovation in cultural evolu
Excavations at Taplow Court in advance of the construction of a Conference Hall for Soka Gakkai UK unexpectedly revealed three successive defensive ditches spanning the later Bronze and Iron Ages, ev
How did the Romans plan their great road to the north, Dere Street? In setting out to answer this question, and to produce a method for diagnosing the direction of Roman surveying and planning from th
"Stone monuments and objects are highly accessible today and formed a focus for engagement, transformation and re-use in the past. Stone is inextricably linked to ideas of monumentality and remembranc
In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centers, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settl
The series examines changes in human society in the valley from a thematic perspective, this volume focusing on the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest. After a bare sketch of the chronolo
Spanning a 50-year career during which the author was an active part of the establishment of the field, the material that makes up this volume has been revised and added to new chapters to produce a u
Known for his red hair, day-old stubble, and uncannily preserved two-thousand-year-old physique, Tollund Man—a mummified body discovered in 1950s Denmark—was an instant archaeological sen
Archaeologist Davies (Norfolk Museum and Archaeology Service) traces the history of the Norfolk region from the Ice Age and the first appearance of people up to the end of Roman Britain. Focusing on t
During the first millennium BCE, complex encounters of Phoenician and Greek colonists with natives of the Iberian Peninsula transformed the region and influenced the entire history of the Mediterranea
This?guide for the interested amateur on how to spot archaeology in your own local landscape provides a period-by-period guide to the archaeology of Britain and an introduction to sites from all the m
Presents information about the daily life, culture, religion, technology, art, and method of governing of the ancient Celts, as well as facts about what happened to them after the ancient period.
The wicked ways of some of the most ruthless rulers to walk the earth are revealed in these thrilling biographies about men and women so monstrous, they make Frankenstein look like a sweetheart.
Twelve excavations were carried out by Wessex Archaeology within the Cambourne Development Area. Situated on the clay uplands west of Cambridge, which have seen little previous archaeological investi
The Pictish nation, forged in the shadow of the Roman empire, was the dominant power in northern Britain for more than?500 years. Much has been written about the archaeology and culture of the Picts i
