Describes in great detail the techniques used in the excavation of elusive Danish Dark Age and Medieval farm and mill sites focusing principally on carefully stripping back successive floor layers rather than trench excavating and taking account also of post holes and fire-places.  Also, con

A handsome album of high quality art photos depicting twenty Swedish rune-inscribed standing stones with their texts transliterated.  A detailed description of their appearance, setting and likely commemorative meaning accompanies each illustration.  Hardback.  120 pages.  Goo

Illustrated guide to the cultural heritage site on the island of Vadsø in the Norwegian arctic region of Finnmark.  Originally the home of the Sami, excavations in the 1970's revealed a substantial Norwegian medieval village of stone and turf houses whose recovered cultural artefacts indicat

Illustrated guide to the medieval castle, its architecture and the museum that it houses.  Paperback.  36 pages.  Text in English, Finnish and Swedish.  Very good condition.  Cat No 2879

Comprehensive guide to the marble statues, their origin, influences and antecedents, and their arrangement in the Drottningholm Garden where they still reside.  These were largely collected from Italy by King Gustav III in the C18th having been commissioned as copies of genuine Roman antiqui

Finland´s oldest preserved wooden churches date back to the C17th and display an unbroken tradition of fine craftsmanship in wood and many features more familar from medieval stone churches.  This book tells the history of wooden churches in Finland and describes their construction, their be

Substantial and handsome pocket guide to the wealth of artefacts from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking cultures on display in Denmark's National Museum.  Excellent colour photographs are accompanies by lengthy explanatory texts (in English).   Paperback.  144 pag

Nine different types of medieval glazed jugs described and illustrated with comparisons made to similar styles from Netherlands and Denmark.  A map of find sites is included.  Paperback.  48 pages.  Text in English.  Signed dedication from the author.  Good clean con

Detailed report into the Bronze Age petroglyphs of boats on the coastal rocks of Småland, Öland and Gotland in the Swedish Baltic.  Comprises three sections by three different researchers:   1) Bronze Age Cosmology in the South-West Baltic, a Framework for Research (by Richard Brad

The history of ecclesiastical and secular buildings in Tallinn, Helsinki and Turku as well as excavation reports of Finnish prehistoric sites.  Paperback.  66 pages.  Illustrated.  New condtion.  Cat No 2253