British Archaeology
Portable Antiquities, Palimpsests, and Persistent Places Cover Portable Antiquities, Palimpsests, and Persistent Places Cover
Format: 
Pages: 332
ISBN: 9789088903830
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 142fc/40bw
Pages: 332
ISBN: 9789088903694
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 142fc/40bw
Description:
Every year thousands of archaeological objects and artefact scatters are discovered by the public, most of them by metal-detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening, or going about their daily work. Once recorded, these finds hold enormous potential in helping us understand the past. In England and Wales these finds are reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), and since 2003 over one million finds have been recorded.
The Avebury Landscape Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842171523
Pub Date: 08 Sep 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 91 b/w illus, 15 tabs
Description:
It is over one hundred years since the publication of the wide ranging archaeological field investigation undertaken on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev A C Smith. His work Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square Miles round Abury was originally published in two volumes in 1884 by the Marlborough College Natural History Society, then reprinted and bound into a single volume and published in 1885 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society after half the original print run was destroyed in a fire. As in most works of inventory the volume has certainly stood the test of time and is still one of the basic reference texts for students of the area.
Aspects of Industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842170786
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 69 b/w figs, 3 tbs
Description:
At the frontiers of the Roman Empire, military settlements had a profound influence on local crafting traditions. Legions were not just fighting units - they contained a large number of craftsmen, and the fortress would have been a centre of manufacturing activity. A timber legionary fortress, for example, required vast numbers of nails, many of which would have been made by legionary smiths on site, and an army of thousands would require many more pots, shoes and tents than could be produced by local domestic potters and leather workers.
Sylloge of Anglo-Saxon Coins II Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780714118246
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2016
Illustrations: 55 b&w plates
Description:
This publication catalogues the British Museum’s uniquely important collection of coins from southern England of the period c. 760–880. During these years, the broad and thin silver penny became established as the standard denomination, used by multiple kingdoms including East Anglia, Kent, Mercia and Wessex, and issued in the names of kings such as Offa of Mercia and Alfred the Great.
Living Near the Edge Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780993454509
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2016
Series: Cotswold Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 149
Description:
Archaeological surveys and excavations were carried out between 2006 and 2010 in advance of the construction of a gas pipeline in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. They resulted in the discovery of many new sites and the investigation of eighteen of them dating from the prehistoric to medieval periods.Early Neolithic and Beaker/Early Bronze Age pits in the southern part of the route near Winstone, suggest transitory occupation in early prehistoric times.
Medieval and Post-Medieval Occupation and Industry in the Redcliffe Suburb of Bristol Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9780993454516
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2016
Series: Cotswold Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 79
Description:
Excavations at 1–2 and 3 Redcliff Street, Bristol, crossed a number of historic properties and revealed domestic and industrial remains dating from the establishment of the Redcliffe suburb in the 12th century through to the later post-medieval period. Cloth-dying was the dominant industry in Redcliffe in the 12th and 13th centuries, and the well preserved remains of dye-stuffs as well as leather shoes and off-cuts from a cobbler’s workshop were recovered from water-logged pit fills. The pits also yielded the largest assemblage of pottery of its kind from the city to date.
The Archaeology of the Lower City and Adjacent Suburbs Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 550
ISBN: 9781782978527
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln, which lies on sloping ground on the northern scarp of the Witham gap, and its adjacent suburbs between 1972 and 1987, and forms a companion volume to LAS volumes 2 and 3 which cover other parts of the historic city. The earliest features encountered were discovered both near to the line of Ermine Street and towards Broadgate. Remains of timber storage buildings were found, probably associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the later 1st century AD.
RRP: £55.00
Excavations at Newport Street, Worcester, 2005 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9780955353499
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2016
Description:
Excavation of approximately a third of a hectare in the north-western part of the historic core of Worcester revealed evidence for activity dating from the Roman to the post-medieval and early modern period. The deepest deposits were recorded in geotechnical and archaeological boreholes, and in two sondages: the rest of the site was excavated to the depth of formation level for development.The earliest feature was a Roman road running on the approximate alignment of the present-day Newport Street.
EAA 156: Close to the Loop Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780955654657
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Description:
The investigations have produced evidence for 6,000 years of landscape and settlement evolution. Perhaps the most striking result is the evidence for continuity, rather than discontinuity, in the development of the landscape. The act of defining chronological periods, while essential in describing past human society, does tend to accentuate discontinuity.
Lives in Land – Mucking Excavations Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9781785701481
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The excavations led by Margaret and Tom Jones on the Thames gravel terraces at Mucking, Essex, undertaken between 1965 and 1978 are legendary. The largest area excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles, involving around 5000 participants, recorded around 44,000 archaeological features dating from the Beaker to Anglo-Saxon periods and recovered something in the region of 1.7 million finds of Mesolithic to post-medieval date.
RRP: £40.00
Temples and Suburbs: Excavations at Tabard Square, Southwark Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780992667252
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2015
Imprint: Pre-Construct Archaeology
Description:
This monograph details the results of major excavations in Southwark, London, detailing an archaeological sequence which spans the early prehistoric to very latest Roman periods. The site lay on the Southern outskirts of Roman London and was the location of a large Romano-Celtic temple complex. A very large finds assemblage includes a marble inscription, which is the earliest text found to mention 'Londoners'.
Hunters, fishers and foragers in Wales Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781782979746
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour and b/w illustrations
Description:
Malcolm Lillie presents a major new holistic appraisal of the evidence for the Mesolithic occupation of Wales. The story begins with a discourse on the Palaeolithic background. In order to set the entire Mesolithic period into its context, subsequent chapters follow a sequence from the palaeoenvironmental background, through a consideration of the use of stone tools, settlement patterning and evidence for subsistence strategies and the range of available resources.
RRP: £40.00
Living with the Flood Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781782979661
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour and b/w illustrations
Description:
The site at Mill Lane, Sawston, represents millennia of human activity within a dynamic and changing landscape setting. River valleys have been a focus for human activity since the early Holocene and, in addition to providing abundant archaeological evidence for this activity, the proximity to water also highlights the potential for the preservation of both archaeological remains and palaeoenvironmental source material. However, human activity within river valleys also commonly bridges areas of both wetland and dryland; ecological zones which are often approached using quite different archaeological methods and which present considerable differences in levels of archaeological visibility and preservation.
RRP: £19.95

St Marylebone’s Paddington Street North Burial Ground:

Excavations at Paddington Street, London W1, 2012–13
Format: Paperback
Pages: 135
ISBN: 9781907586385
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Description:
During the 18th century the expansion of the wealthy London parish of St Marylebone led to the development of two additional graveyards to relieve pressure on the church and churchyard on Marylebone High Street. The latest of these, on the north side of Paddington Street, was in use between 1772 and 1853. Archaeologists recorded 386 burials from 124 single, stacked and brick-lined graves at the western edge of this ground.
A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781782979708
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour and b/w illustrations
Description:
A complex enclosure identified by aerial photography at Dunragit Galloway, was demonstrated by excavation to have been of Late Neolithic date, and comprised three concentric timber ramped post-rings, 120–300 m in diameter. The two outer post-rings each comprised large uprights interspersed with smaller members, probably forming a continuous palisade. Each was a single-phase structure and the posts had rotted out.
The Home Front in Britain 1914-1918 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781909990012
Pub Date: 31 May 2015
Series: CBA Practical Handbook
Illustrations: 100 illustrations
Description:
This latest CBA Practical Handbook forms part of the CBA-led project to record the physical legacy of the First World War on the Home Front in the UK. The book provides invaluable background information for anyone interested in identifying and recording the remains of the Home Front, from practice trenches to works by conscientious objectors to Homes fit for Heroes. Extensively illustrated, with both archive and modern images, the book also includes guidance on researching the Home Front.