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British Isles

On the Edge of Empire
Society in the south-west of England during the first century BC to fifth century AD
£52.00
Author:
Siân Alyce Thomas
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358468
Paperback:
224 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 81 figures and 37 tables
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Roman Britain, 5
BAR number:
B667
Sub Title:
Society in the south-west of England during the first century BC to fifth century AD
This volume explores the relationship between people and material culture in the south-west peninsula from the first century BC to the fifth century AD.... More
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Iron Age Chariot Burials in Britain and the Near Continent
Networks of mobility, exchange and belief in the third and second centuries BC
£65.00
Author:
Greta Anthoons
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316840
Paperback:
284 pages
BAR number:
B666
Sub Title:
Networks of mobility, exchange and belief in the third and second centuries BC
The British chariot burials, mainly concentrated in East Yorkshire, reveal a strong link with continental Europe, which has led some scholars to believe... More
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Village and Colony Asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914
Environmental approaches to patient treatment in Edwardian institutions for the insane
£69.00
Author:
Gillian Allmond
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357584
Paperback:
326 pages
BAR number:
B665
Sub Title:
Environmental approaches to patient treatment in Edwardian institutions for the insane
This book analyses the buildings, interiors and landscapes of asylums for the insane poor in the early part of the twentieth century, exploring the ways in... More
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Belonging and Belongings
Portable artefacts and identity in the civitas of the Iceni
£72.00
Author:
Natasha Harlow
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357010
Paperback:
269 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 15 tables, 288 figures
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Roman Britain, 4
BAR number:
B664
Sub Title:
Portable artefacts and identity in the civitas of the Iceni
The Late Iron Age in northern East Anglia ended with the Boudican rebellion in 60/61 CE, after which the people known to classical writers as the Iceni were... More
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Building on the Past
Medieval and postmedieval essays in honour of Tom Beaumont James
£72.00
Editors:
Amanda Richardson and Mark Allen
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357812
Paperback:
246 pages
BAR number:
B662
Sub Title:
Medieval and postmedieval essays in honour of Tom Beaumont James
This book brings together a collection of chapters reflecting the scholarship of Tom Beaumont James, Emeritus Professor at the University of Winchester, in... More
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Contested Heritage
Relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain in the early 21st century
£51.00
Author:
Will Rathouse
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356969
Paperback:
176 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 37 figures
BAR number:
B661
Sub Title:
Relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain in the early 21st century
This book examines the sometimes fraught interactions and relationships between contemporary Pagan groups and archaeological heritage managers in the first... More
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Arts and Crafts in Iron Age East Yorkshire
A holistic approach to pattern and purpose, c. 400BC-AD100
£44.00
Author:
Helen Chittock
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356976
Paperback:
148 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. 17 tables, 91 figures.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 3
BAR number:
B660
Sub Title:
A holistic approach to pattern and purpose, c. 400BC-AD100
This volume presents a new approach to art in Iron Age Britain and beyond. It aims to collapse the historic distinction between arts and crafts during the... More
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Land, People and Power in Early Medieval Wales
The cantref of Cemais in comparative perspective
£91.00
Author:
Rhiannon Comeau
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357126
Paperback:
384 pages, With additional material online. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. 30 tables and 79 figures
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 5
BAR number:
B659
Sub Title:
The cantref of Cemais in comparative perspective
This is a study of the seasonal activity cycles of a pre-urban society, examined through the lens of an early medieval Welsh case study. It considers the... More
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Worcester Magistrates Court
Excavation of Romano-British homes and industry at Castle Street
£62.00
Author:
Andy Boucher
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357041
Paperback:
240 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 51 tables and 147 figures.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Roman Britain, 2
BAR number:
B658
Sub Title:
Excavation of Romano-British homes and industry at Castle Street
In the summer of 2000 archaeological excavations on the periphery of the Roman ‘small town’ at Worcester revealed extensive evidence for timber-framed... More
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Stories from the Edge
Creating Identities in Early Medieval Staffordshire
£40.00
Author:
Matthew Blake
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316697
Paperback:
126 pages, 141 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 79 figures.
BAR number:
B657
Sub Title:
Creating Identities in Early Medieval Staffordshire
Stories from the Edge identifies a methodology to illuminate the early medieval history of places that lack the compelling evidence to be included in... More
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£71.00
Editors:
Julian Whitewright
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English with summary in French and German
ISBN:
9781407356877
Paperback:
264 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 23 tables, 188 figures.
Sub-series name:
The Maritime Archaeology Trust Monograph Series (formerly Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology Monograph Series), 4
BAR number:
B656
This book examines the archaeological investigations undertaken between 1979 and 2009 on the wreck of the Stirling Castle a 70-gun third-rate ship of the... More
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£55.00
Author:
Andrew A. S. Newton
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356921
Paperback:
208 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 13 tables, 30 figures, 85 plates, 29 graphs.
BAR number:
B655
The village of Exning in the most westerly part of Suffolk is a small settlement appended to the north-west of the larger town of Newmarket. Despite its... More
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£33.00
Author:
Jonathan M. Wooding
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548430
Paperback:
132pp
BAR number:
S654
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The Chadwell St Mary Ringwork
A late Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon settlement in southern Essex
£59.00
Author:
Andrew A. S. Newton
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356747
Paperback:
221 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 26 tables, 29 plates, 119 figures. With additional material online (Appendices).
BAR number:
B654
Sub Title:
A late Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon settlement in southern Essex
Chadwell St Mary is a village in the unitary authority of Thurrock, in southern Essex. This part of the county contains a high proportion of prehistoric... More
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£52.00
Author:
Mark Borlase
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407354767
Paperback:
180 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 7 tables, 168 figures.
BAR number:
B653
Sub Title:
‘The Way of Saints’ from the Roman period to AD 700
The Camel and Fowey rivers incise deeply into Cornwall, nearly meeting in the middle. This book is a landscape study of the Camel/Fowey corridor which forms... More
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£173.00
Author:
Peter King
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315126
Paperback:
770 pages, Two volume set. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Vol I: 2 tables and 20 maps. Vol II: 24 maps.
BAR number:
B652
Sub Title:
Volumes I and II
A new process of making iron, using a blast furnace and a forge, both powered by water, was introduced into the Weald in the 1490s, and spread to other... More
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Coin Hoarding in Medieval England and Wales, c.973-1544
Behaviours, motivations, and mentalités
£70.00
Author:
Murray Andrews
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356686
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 37 tables, 198 figures. With additional material online (Appendix 1 - Gazetteer)
BAR number:
B651
Sub Title:
Behaviours, motivations, and mentalités
More than 800 hoards of medieval precious metal coins are known from England and Wales, but the phenomenon as a whole remains poorly understood: who made... More
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The Moneyers of England, 973–1086
Labour organisation in the Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Anglo-Norman English mints
£62.00
Author:
Jeremy Piercy
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407353746
Paperback:
237 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, 111 tables, 30 figures (3 in colour), 9 colour maps. With additional material online (supplementary data and Appendix 1 in graphic format).
BAR number:
B650
Sub Title:
Labour organisation in the Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Anglo-Norman English mints
The book examines the moneyers, those men responsible for minting the king’s coinage, within developing urban society in England during the tenth and... More
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£52.00
Author:
Hana Lewis
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407317014
Paperback:
286 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 80 tables, 274 figures (44 in colour), With additional material online (appendices).
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 1
BAR number:
B649
The research presented in this book advances scholarship on Anglo-Saxon non-elite rural settlements through the analysis of material culture. Forty-four... More
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Inscribed Vervels
A corpus and discussion of late medieval and Renaissance hawking rings found in Britain
£23.00
Author:
Michael J. Lewis and Ian Richardson
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316789
Paperback:
96 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 1 table, 15 figures (3 in colour), 4 colour maps, 17 colour graphs.
BAR number:
B648
Sub Title:
A corpus and discussion of late medieval and Renaissance hawking rings found in Britain
This book provides a corpus of inscribed hawking rings (vervels) reported Treasure via the Portable Antiquities Scheme over the last twenty years. Since... More
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£56.00
Author:
David A. Fisher
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316802
Paperback:
194 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 40 tables, 101 figures (86 in colour). With additional material online (animations and discussion).
BAR number:
B647
In this book, David A. Fisher combines methods including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), GPS, computerised three-dimensional modelling and... More
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The Clayton Collection
An archaeological appraisal of a 19th century collection of Roman artefacts from Hadrian’s Wall
£44.00
Author:
Frances McIntosh
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407321479
Paperback:
205 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 36 tables, 96 figures, 23 graphs
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Roman Britain, 1
BAR number:
B646
Sub Title:
An archaeological appraisal of a 19th century collection of Roman artefacts from Hadrian’s Wall
This book examines the archaeological material from Hadrian’s Wall within the significant Clayton Collection. The Collection was formed through the work of... More
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Image and Performance, Agency and Ideology
Representations of the Human Figure in Funerary Contexts in Anglo-Saxon Art, AD 400–680
£72.00
Author:
Lisa Brundle
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316512
Paperback:
288pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 43 tables, 87 figures (40 in colour).
BAR number:
B645
Sub Title:
Representations of the Human Figure in Funerary Contexts in Anglo-Saxon Art, AD 400–680
This book investigates the topic of human imagery and hybrid human imagery rendered on metalwork of early Anglo-Saxon date recovered within eastern England... More
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£70.00
Author:
Jessica Murray
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316079
Paperback:
244 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 202 figures (185 in colour).
BAR number:
B644
Moving away from the highly constrained, purely humanistic and empirical studies of hillfort location and morphology of the past, this book presents a... More
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