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Region: Britain - Midlands

This landmark C15th timber frame building in the centre of Ledbury was in a poor and dilapidated state when purchased by Malvern Hills District Council in the 1970's which undertook its deconstruction, renovation and repurposing into the fine building  it is today.

Region: Britain - N. England

A gazetteer of historic industrial sites in Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, and St Helens - docks, canals, railways, mills, lighthouses, breweries, warehouses, waterworks, shipyards, quarries, gasworks etc.  Each site is identified, described, and given a map reference.

Region: Britain

A broad, thorough and comprehensive survey of the social history and structure of Britons from the Neolithic to the Roman invasion with reference to a huge number of prehistoric monuments and excavation reports in Great Britain and Ireland.

Region: Britain - S. England

The story of the historic city of Winchester told using the exhibits in the City's museum from Palaeolithic hand axes, through Bronze age palstaves, Roman glassware, Saxon jewellery, Medieval pottery, C17th trade tokens, and Victorian architecture.  Paperback.  48 pages.

Region: Britain - Isles of Scilly

Colour guide to the work of a diving team working during the 1970's on the wrecks of the sunken C18th men-o-war - Colossus, Association, Eagle and Anson - illustrating the cannon, coins and other artefacts recovered.  Paperback.  32 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 3774

Region: France

A guide to the remarkable ruins of a post-medieval castle perched precariously on a high peak in the Languedoc the site of which bears signs the original Cathar habitation upon which the present ruins reside.  Paperback.  32 pages.

Region: Americas

Examines the scant archaeological evidence for the archaic migrants who moved north into Newfoundland having crossed into America from Asia 30,000 years previously.

Region: Americas

An album of traditional Navajo sand paintings depicting their subjects and the symbolism behind them.  Twenty-eight examples are illustrated in colour with accompanying descriptive text.  Large format paperback.  32 pages.  Good condition. Cat No 3555

Region: Israel

A large illustrated catalogue of almost 700 ancient pottery lamps - Roman, Hellenistic, Punic, Nabatean - from the collection formed by Miriam Schloessinger.   Large hardback.  180 pages.  Bibliography.  Slight corner bump, otherwise very good clean condition.

Region: Britain - S. England

A descriptive gazetteer of historic industrial sites - Roman roads, drove roads, packhorse bridges, turnpikes, tollhouses, milestones, coaching inns, canals and canal architecture, tramroads, railways and railway architecture, windmills, windpumps,  watermills, fulling mills, factories, brew