A walker's guide to the fabulous number and variety of the ornamental gable stones that appear high up on old Amsterdam houses, introduced in the C16th and used, not only to adorn the building, but also to identify its occupants and their possible business.

A guide to the C16th palace in Southern India originally built in traditional Keralan style by the Portuguese and adorned with extensive Hindu murals and now, following extensive restoration, a protected national monument.

A detailed guide to the largest and most impressive nuraghe in central Sardinia, a tower megalith constructed entirely of drystone basaltic blocks which dates back to the Bronze Age of C16th BC and an edifice emblematic of the Nuragic culture prevalent on the island in that time.

Included here is information that the author has collected from the 1920’s onward, when most of the metalliferous mines were already closed or facing closure, and when few thought to record, or capture in photographs, the details of the workings of a vast industry that has by and large vanished f

Examines the mechanisms of time measuring devices that regulate by the consistent flow of water in or out of the device, a technique employed from the most ancient Egyptian and Babylonian times but reaching its apogee during the Medieval Islamic period where the principles of Archimedes instructi

The author explores the purpose of scratch dials weighing up the evidence for, either mass dials (with a detachable gnomon) or sun dials (with a fixed gnomon).  He illustrates the variety of such dials found in Gloucestershire and follows this with a lengthy gazetteer of sites.

 A surprisingly thorough history of the phases of settlement on the Isle of Man from Neolithic times through the Iron Age with many excellent drawings of standing stones and hillforts, and the stone and metal implements recovered from the many sites across the island.

A survey of all recognised megaliths in Wales with descriptions of each including location, structure, current map reference, past notations on early maps and any previous literature citations.  Legends, alignments and results of dowsing also feature.  Paperback.  192 pages.

Report of an excavation of the Roman settlement on the Fosse Way in Nottinghamshire that took place in the 1920’s.  Includes fourteen pages of drawings of pottery and coins recovered.  Includes a fold-out plan of the site and a large fold-out drawing of the excavation section.

A guide to the society, the culture, the traditional customs, and the archaeology of the indigenous people of Kings Canyon east of Fresno in California.  Includes a bibliography.  Paperback.  56 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 4772