Product Description: This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at the late prehistoric inland promontory settlement of Castell Henllys, here focusing on the defensive sequence and the role of monumentality in later prehistory...read more

Product Description: Archaeological field schools, notably in North America but also across the world, are seminal student experiences. They are also important vehicles by which research students and academic staff carry out fieldwork research, often away from the environs of their home institution...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention...read more

Product Description: Britain has a long tradition of establishing grave memorials to the dead, something which leaves an enduring record of individuals, social and religious beliefs, and of family and local history, Whether you chose to consult this book through pure curiosity, because you want to know how to record and analyse graveyards, or whether part of a wider program of research, this is a clear and pragmatic study that provides an excellent starting point...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers is based on a conference on urban monasteries held at York in 1989. Contents: topography of monastic houses in Yorks towns (D M Palliser) ; spatial and social analysis of an Augustinian hospital, St Leonard's York (P H Cullum) ; recording worked stone (D Stocker) ; building in religious precincts in London after the Dissolution (J Schofield) ; water management in the urban monastery (C J Bond) ; archaeology of urban monasteries (L A S Butler) ; study of medieval tiles (J Stopford) ; bone assemblages (T P O'Connor) ; monastic topography of Chester S W Ward) ; pottery and glass in the monastery (S Moorhouse) ...read more

Product Description: Cultural developments in Early Christian Ireland have long been recognized and described. There has, however, been little attempt to date to explain why the flowering of culture should happen at the time and in the way it did. Harold Mytum explains changes in the period up to AD 800 in Ireland...read more