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In September 2022 Oxbow's bookshop and distribution business merged with Pen & Sword Books, a family run independent publisher of history books. As Casemate UK, this new distribution business will continue to bring you the best books in the field of archaeology and related disciplines from our partner publishers. The Oxbow Books publishing imprint remains as a separate entity, still sold and distributed exclusively by us. Browse the archaeology subjects below, or visit our Ancient History and Medieval History books landing pages in the menus above.

A Research Framework for London Archaeology 2002

Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781901992298
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Illustrations: b/w illus throughout
Description:
The future of London archaeology is the focus of this volume, which follows on from The Archaeology of Greater London (MoLAS 2000). It sets out aims for improving and facilitating research and managing the archaeological resource more effectively. What will be useful for non-specialists are the summaries and reviews of the evidence for the main chronological periods; Prehistory, Roman, Saxon, Medieval and post 1500.
Creating Digital Performance Resources Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842170229
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology Data Service & Digital Antiquity Guides to Good Practice
Illustrations: 15 b/w illus
Description:
Performing arts' covers a vast range of interests and skills, involving as it does designers, directors, actors and performers, musicians, critics, technicians, analysts, administrators, theorists. A central tenet of this Guide is to encourage professionals in the performing arts to consider some of the advantages that digital resources may now offer. It is noticeably different from its predecessors in the series.
EAA 99: Excavations at Melford Meadows, Brettenham, 1994 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 125
ISBN: 9780904220247
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 10 b/w pls, 63 b/w figs, 24 tbs
Description:
An excavation report of a Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon site investigated by the Oxford Archaeological Unit at Melford Meadows, just outside Thetford. The Roman remains comprised buildings probably belonging to a small farmstead occupied from the late 1st to the end of the 4th century, and a cemetery, whereas evidence from the Saxon occupation comprised buildings, pits and domestic artefacts dating from the 5th to late 6th/7th century.
Roman Defences and Medieval Industry Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9781901992175
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Illustrations: 81 b/w illus
Description:
Excavations at the site of Baltic House uncovered evidence of occupation dating from Roman times onward. The earliest excavated feature was a Roman barrel-lined well dated AD 50-80 and containing the skulls of a horse and bull - perhaps a sacrificial offering. The well lay to the south of a large V-shaped ditch which formed part of a late 1st-century defensive boundary along the northeast side of the Roman settlement.

In Harvey's House and in God's House

Format: Paperback
Pages: 46
ISBN: 9780904220100
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2002
Illustrations: with 18 figs & 5 illus.
Description:
This volume brings together the results of two evaluation and excavation projects undertaken by Oxford Archaeological Unit at Eynsham Abbey between 1991 and 1993. It reports on the medieval moated site and associated fishponds, the late Anglo-Saxon/medieval abbey, and finds, together with discussion.
Creating Digital Audio Resources Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9781842170380
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2002
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology Data Service & Digital Antiquity Guides to Good Practice
Description:
A basic `how to' for those using audio materials in the creation of digital resources. The guide addresses issues of copyright, the choice of appropriate equipment, presenting and delivering audio material, data management and methodological procedure.
EAA 96: Two Medieval Churches in Norfolk Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780905594330
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2001
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 59 b/w figs, 31 b/w pls, fiche
Description:
Reports of two church excavations, St Martin-at-Palace, Norwich and St Michael, Bowthorpe, undertaken prior to their re-building and re-use. The reports cover the earliest evidence for occupation of the site and the phases of re-building, repair and ruin (in the case of St Michael's) from the Anglo-Saxon period through to their present state.
EAA 97: Monument 97; Orton Longueville, Cambridgeshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 89
ISBN: 9780952810513
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2001
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 13 b/w pls, 43 b/w figs, tbs
Description:
Identified from cropmarks and excavated in 1974, the site consisted of three enclosures belonging to a small farmstead lasting from at least the later 1st century BC to the middle of the 2nd century AD. The evidence of the houses is that the site had been inhabited by a single family group at all times and had developed in tandem with the growing complexity of landscape division, and almost certainly was closed down in favour of another site nearby. After it was abandoned, its earthworks were incorporated into the Roman field system and, eventually, the corner of an enclosure was used for a small cemetery of nine burials
Excavations at 25 Cannon Street, City of London Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 73
ISBN: 9781901992229
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Illustrations: 51 b/w illus
Description:
This report provides a chronological account of excavation findings at 25 Cannon Street, supported by many illustrations and specialist contributions. The dig revealed a long sequence of occupation, and adds to findings made on the site in 1954. Redeposited pottery provided rare evidence for Middle Bronze Age activity in the area of the City of London.
Ladby Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 293
ISBN: 9788785180445
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: Ships & Boats of the North
Roman and Medieval Townhouses on the London Waterfront Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781901992212
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Illustrations: 74 b/w illus
Description:
The north bank of the Thames near Cannon Street Station was occupied by some of London's most prominent buildings in both the Roman and Medieval periods. Substantial stone walls revealed at the site in 1969 were initially interpreted as part of a Roman townhouse attached to the 'Governor's Palace' building complex to the west. In 1994-7 new excavations uncovered a prehistoric marsh, a riverside quay dated to AD 84 and a revetment constructed in c.
Archaeology of Wigford and the Brayford Pool Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781842170212
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Illustrations: many b/w pls
Description:
The suburb of Wigford lies near the heart of the historic city of Lincoln. Before excavations began in 1972, nothing was known of the prehistory of the area and so the arrival of the Roman army represented the first historic event. This volume publishes the results of the excavation of several sites, made possible by a series of urban development schemes.
Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 71
ISBN: 9781842170120
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology Data Service & Digital Antiquity Guides to Good Practice
Description:
A basic guide to transferring texts and archiving them (books, manuscripts) into electronic form or similar digital resources, with lots of pointers to specialised information.
Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842170137
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology Data Service & Digital Antiquity Guides to Good Practice
Description:
This guide provides advice on legal issues such as Copyright and Rights Management when creating and using digital picture resources, technical advice on software and producing good quality images, standards for data documentation, project management, storage and preservation, and innovative creative techniques, including web design and virtual reality.
EAA 91: Excavations on the Norwich Southern Bypass, 1989-91, Part 1 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 253
ISBN: 9780905594293
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 181 b/w figs, 53 b/w pls
Description:
The first part of the final synthesis of excavations which took place in advance of the southern bypass in Norwich. The report focuses on six main excavations as well as providing details on the context and history of the project, the research aims and methodology. The evidence recovered ranges from the Mesolithic through to the Late Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and modern periods and includes sites at Bixley, Harford Farm at Caistor St Edmund, Valley Belt in Trowse, Markshall Borrow Pit, Frettenham Lime Co.
EAA 92: Excavations on the Norwich Southern Bypass, 1989-91 Part II Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 137
ISBN: 9780905594309
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 97 b/w figs, 25 b/w pls, tbs
Description:
The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Harford Farm consisted of two groups of late 7th-century inhumation burials surviving only as stains within a prehistoric barrow cemetery. Of the thirty-one graves grouped on a bluff overlooking the river, most contained either unaccompanied burials or burials with just knife and buckle; but three, all probably female, were lavishly equipped. The fifteen graves further south, loosely arranged around a prehistoric barrow, were mostly 'knife and buckle' burials, but one was more richly furnished.