Founded in 1765 as a base to secure passage round Cape Horn and abandoned by the British nine years later, Port Egmont was occupied briefly by the Spanish in 1770-71. Apart from sporadic visits by sealers and whalers in the 19th century the site remained deserted.
Greenland being very much in the news, we highlight some of the books we offer for sale covering the little-known archaeology of the region:
The buried remains of the largest Roman villa in Wales have been detected and mapped using ground-penetrating radar by a team of archaeologists from Swansea University. Lying hidden in the su
With thefts from the Louvre in Paris and 600 artefacts from Bristol Museum’s archive we offer several books relating to the security of historic artefacts: