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Region: Britain - East Anglia

12-page pamphlet with ground plan.  Good condition.  Cat No 5063

Region: Britain - W. England

Paperback.  14 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 5047

Region: Britain - Scotland

Iron Age and Viking remains excavated.  Paperback.  20 pages.  In very good clean condition.  Cat No 5018

Region: France

A comprehensive survey of the prehistory of the South-Eastern Mediterranean region of France from the earliest traces of Palaeolithic man, through the Neolithic megaliths, the Iron Age earthworks, and the Hellenic occupation.

Region: France

The entire Bayeux Tapestry reproduced in colour alongside its historic and present-day contexts.  A publisher-produced offprint specific to this single topic with additional colour photographs of related sites and landscapes.  Paperback.  46 pages.  Near new condition.

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

Ten essays by Pakistani archaeologists – Indus Valley Civilization; Gandhara; Archaeology of Swat; Pakistani Sculpture; Muslim Art; Muslim Architecture; Shalamar Garden; Epigraphy; Arts and Crafts of Swat, Baluchistan and Sind; Coins of Pakistan – accompanied by seventy-eight b&w plates.&nbsp

Region: Australasia/Pacific

Collected by Prof Ruhe whilst lecturing at the University of Adelaide in 1965, this illustrated catalogue describes 42 aboriginal paintings with precise information on collecting site, artist (if known), tribe, size, colour and a detailed description of the subject matter and its symbolic meaning

Region: Eastern Europe

Sixty examples of Avars decorative metalwork dating from the C8th - horse harness, buckles, weaponry and jewellery - with a few examples of bone carving and pottery.  Colour and b&w plates are preceded by a lengthy essay on the Avar Blakan empire, lifestyle and culture.  Hardback.

Region: Britain - N. England

A gazetteer of museums (now out-of-date) and a more significant descriptive gazetteer of industrial heritage sites - iron works, canals, fulling and silk mills, aqueducts, docks, foundries, watch maker, copper mines, corn mills, limekilns, salt works and railway architecture.  Paperback.

Region: Britain - N. England

A sixteen page Bulletin whose main article is devoted to descriptions of six C19th ice houses, four of which are illustrated.  A short note on three C18th Durham corn mills is also included.  Paperback.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3859