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Region: Britain - S. England

Comprehensive report of excavations of several adjoining Neolithic henge, cremation and cursus sites on the Thames flood plain at Dorchester subsequently destroyed by commercial gravel extraction.

Region: Britain - Wales

An album of seventy prehistoric and historic objects from the museum's collection, each illustrated in a full page colour photograph with accompanying description ranging from a Neanderthal's stone hand axe to the Medieval Oxwich brooch and including the Maesmor Neolithic mace head, the Iron Age

Region: Britain - S. England

Report of the excavation of the Roman reservoir lying beneath the medieval King's Bath, its likely reconstruction, and details of recovered coins, pewter curses, silver vessels and trinkets deposited as offerings to the goddess Sulis Minerva.  Paperback.  20 pages.

Region: Britain - Midlands

Drawing on a wide range of excavation reports, surveys, old maps and historic documents this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the development of medieval Worcester presented as a digest of the material evidence - churches, historic houses, defences and old industrial sites.

Region: Britain - S. England

An alternative history of Stonehenge that is less concerned with artifacts than with the ambient mentality of peoples who erected the monument in several phases over many years.

Theory & Practice: Technique

The proceedings of two conferences exploring new methods of conserving, displaying and interpreting archaeological finds both large and small.  Contents include the Newport medieval ship, the Beau Street Roman horde from Bath and the prehistory of Creswell Crags.

Region: Britain

Not only an illustrated catalogue of the most impressive small finds reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, but also an overview of the positive role played by detectorists and associated media coverage.  Large format paperback.  Very good condition.  Cat No 3242

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

A magnificent auction catalogue to a single lot.  The Ottheinrich Bible is incomparably the finest surviving manuscript of the German vernacular Bible originally commissioned around 1430 by Ludwig VII.

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

A lavish auction catalogue published to advertise two of the finest illuminated manuscripts ever produced.  The missal was commissioned by the Venetian Cardinal Cornaro around 1505.  The prayer book dates from about the same time and is a Flemish book of hours.

Region: France

Album of superb colour plates depicting medieval animal carvings on French cathedrals and churches -  sheep, goats, dogs, cockerels, wild boar, hares, eagles, snakes, crows, doves, whales, camels, elephants, lions, monkeys, pelicans and mythological beasts - gryphons, dragons, basilisks, uni