Council for British Archaeology

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Renewed Life for Scottish Castles Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9781902771861
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2011
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
Castles, both ruined and occupied, are amongst the most deeply evocative buildings in the Scottish landscape. This book considers the history of the conservation and restoration of a number of those buildings against the background of what the idea of the castle has meant to Scots over the centuries. The authors draw on their extensive knowledge of castles across Scotland, as well as on their practical experience in advising on recent conservation and restoration projects.
Finds from the Frontier Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 161
ISBN: 9781902771816
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2010
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
Finds from the Frontier brings together papers given at a conference held at Newcastle upon Tyne in 2008. Its aim is to elucidate the life of the 4th-century limitanei of Britain through their material culture. The papers consider whether the excavated artefacts justify the traditional implication that the period is one of declining standards and largely come to the conclusion that, on the contrary, the period was rich in artefacts that have much to tell us about the late frontier.
Historic Fraserburgh Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781902771793
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2010
Series: Scottish Burgh Survey
Description:
This book examines Fraserburgh's historic development from the late medieval period, when it was laid out to a continental-style grid, to its heyday as a fishing port in the early twentieth century. The town has received very little archaeological investigation so the authors consider where the areas of archaeological potential lie, in order to inform future management.
The Later Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Bishopstone Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9781902771830
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2010
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Well known for the Early Anglo-Saxon settlement previously excavated on Rookery Hill and its impressive pre-Conquest church, Bishopstone has entered archaeological orthodoxy as a classic example of a 'Middle Saxon Shift'. This volume reports on the excavations from 2002 to 2005 designed to investigate this transition, with the focus on the origins of Bishopstone village. Excavations adjacent to St Andrews churchyard revealed a dense swathe of later Anglo-Saxon (8th- to late 10th-/early 11th-century) habitation, including a planned complex of timber halls, and a unique cellared tower.
Historic Kirkintilloch Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 91
ISBN: 9781902771588
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Series: Scottish Burgh Survey
Illustrations: b/w illus, fold out plan
Description:
This survey offers an accessible and broad-ranging synthesis of the history and archaeology of Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, and aims to inform conservation guidance for future development. Kirkintilloch lies at a key point in Scotlands central belt. Here, by accident of geography, the Antonine Wall, ancient and modern route ways and the Forth and Clyde Canal pass within yards of each other.
Where Rivers Meet Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781902771786
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
This book is the story of an area of landscape in the English Midlands from earliest prehistory to around AD 900. Although it looks like a typical rural landscape, archaeological research, much of it in advance of quarrying, has revealed that this area has a long and remarkable history of occupation stretching back to the Ice Age. In particular at Catholme the project has revealed spectacular monuments from the Neolithic and Bronze Age (including a 'woodhenge-type' monument, a 'sunburst' monument and a cursus) that represent a regional expression of the monumental traditions of the age of Stonehenge.
Historic Barrhead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9781902771694
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008
Series: Scottish Burgh Survey
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This book identifies medieval sites and charts the development of the town from the scatter of fermtouns shown on early maps. It goes on to sketch the social history of a community shaped by the industrial revolution. The authors look at the history and archaeological potential of key sites in the town, to inform the future management of Barrheads historic environment.
RRP: £9.50
Laying the Foundations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781902771762
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
A pioneering regional study of one of the UK's key heavy industries in the 20th century - aggregates. Combining archaeological fieldwork with historical research and oral testimony, Tim Cooper traces the development of the industry through the 20th century, the machinery and processes used in quarrying, issues of supply and storeage, its place in the wider industry, and perhaps most prominently its significant impact on the Trent Valley landscape.
Londinium and Beyond Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 294
ISBN: 9781902771724
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
This volume, a collection of essays in honour of Harvey Sheldon, begins with a section on the chronology and cartography of Roman London. The second section examines the landscape and environment of Roman London and its hinterland, drawing from a variety of disciplines.The third part of the book examines themes which are more difficult to identify through the archaeological record, such as education, cults and attitudes to death and burial.
Interrupting the Pots Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 278
ISBN: 9781902771717
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2007
Illustrations: b/w illus col pls
Description:
The Cleatham cemetery in North Lincolnshire is, with over 1200 cremations and 62 burials, England's third largest Anglo-Saxon cemetery. It was in use throughout the early Anglo-Saxon period from the mid-5th century to the late 7th century. Following full excavation, the site was analysed in detail and it proved possible to phase the 1204 inter-cut urns and a sequence of five phases was constructed.
Sutton Common Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 235
ISBN: 9781902771700
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2007
Illustrations: col and b/w illus
Description:
Sutton Common in South Yorkshire is one of the best-known Iron Age multivallate sites in lowland Britain. This volume describes the results of the large-scale excavations undertaken there between 1998 and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights into the function and meaning of this 4th-century BC 'marsh-fort'. Sutton Common is described as a place where the social identity of the local community was reinforced through the construction of the physical representation of the idea of community, using a bank-and-ditch arrangement that resembles the defences used elsewhere, particularly at hillforts.
Landscape Community and Colonisation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 317
ISBN: 9781902771670
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2006
Illustrations: b/w figs and pls
Description:
Oxbow says: From 1993, the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD. The inter-disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological (survey and excavation) data, palaeoenvironmental evidence, studies of documentary sources, architecture, cartography and field- and place-names, to what was already known about the historic landscape. This report, which publishes the findings of the project, examines local and regional changes and variations in the landscape, focusing on two major phases of exploitation, modification and transformation during the Roman and medieval periods.
RRP: £38.00
Environmental Evidence from the Colonia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9780906780909
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1990
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This report deals with biological evidence from two sites within the area of the Roman civil town or colonia close to the River Ouse and the probable Roman river crossing. Both sites were extensively sampled and the material has provided the first opportunity in York to examine richly organic waterlogged Roman deposits formed on surfaces rather than as the fills of wells or other subsurface features.
RRP: £18.00