A comprehensive survey of Celtic life and culture - housing, food, clothing, hunting, farming, governance and justice, worship, bards and druids - illustrating by example using artefacts from Iberia, Gaul, Germany Britain and Ireland.  Hardback. 144 pages.

A biography of noted C17th bellfounder Joseph Hatch and his Ulcombe foundry in Kent dating back to 1585 and now no longer extant.  Includes a long list of bells cast at the foundry and four b&w plates showing the casting process (courtesy of Whitechapel bell foundry).  Paperback.

Comprehensive history of Brunel's bridge with details of its design, construction and opening ceremony.  19th updated edition.  Paperback.  46 pages.  Very faint crease, otherwise good clean condition.  Cat No 3792

A thorough report on the 1972 season of excavations on Thera in the Cyclades with particular focus on the decorated pottery, the fresco depictions of fishermen and a fleet of boats, plus possible connections between the Minoans and peoples of North Africa.  Large paperback.

Detailed study of the Olmec culture as the first civilization of America. The starting point is an analysis of the sophistication of a wide variety of Olmec sculptures. The author also relates to other cultures at a similar stage of development in South America and further afield.

A visitors walking itinerary through Coalbrookdale concentrating on its historic buildings.  Booklet.  8 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 3595

A short history of iron making in Coalbrookdale and the Darby family behind it, plus a description of the furnace site today and a plan of how it worked.  Booklet. 12 pages.  Illustrated.  Good condition.  Cat No 3594

An analysis of pottery recovered either from excavation or surface scatters in the mountainous region of Southern Malawi used to differentiate between Early Iron Age (pre-c1000 AD) and  Late Iron Age (post-c1000 AD) and to determine possible cultural apread into Malawi from societies to

Examines in considerable detail the culture and folklore of the native peoples of the North American Pacific coast from Alaska to southern California.  Hardback.  260 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3340

The modern approach to town conservation and the re-use of historic buildings requires skill, sympathy, local knowledge and a focus on the whole rather than just a town's major monuments.