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Region: SE Asia

A shocking exposé of the extent of the looting of sculptural figures hacked out of the Angkor monuments for export and sale in legitimate and illegitimate antiquities markets. Illustrated.  Dual language text - English and French.  Paperback.  104 pages.  New condition.

Region: France

'Vaison-la-Romaine: A Long Story . . .' (NB: this is the English edition with the same ISBN as the French edition but a different cover).  Paperback.  120 pages.  In very good condition.  Cat No 4884

Region: Americas

Large heavy paperback.  150 pages.  In very good clean condition.  Cat No 4881

Region: Britain - N. England

This is the revised and expanded edition of a smaller book published in 1987 and includes an extraordinarily thorough gazetteer of all known historic charcoal-fired blast furnaces across Britain, each with lengthy descriptions and site references.  Arranged by county.

Region: Britain - Scotland

The Picts, the native inhabitants of northern Scotland, along with their allies and later adversaries, the Scots, were a constant irritation to the Romans.

Period: Roman

Coinage of the twelve Caesars from the extensive collection held by the Barber Institute and their relationship to events during the years of the Empire's greatest extent and influence - Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian.

Region: Israel

Attractive and thorough guide to the ruins of the large C6th Byzantine desert monastery written by the lead excavator whose archaeological report is presented here alongside excellent colour photographs and site plans with the emphasis on the many remarkable floor mosaics.

Region: Americas

A directory of present-day place names in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut that derive from indigenous native names with information on their original meaning including such examples as Chappaquiddick,  Merrimack, and Nantucket.  Paperback.

Region: Britain - Midlands

The history of the small parish of Little Malvern which contains just twenty-two houses yet is also the site of a C12th Benedictine monastery, whose ruins are now incorporated into the parish church, as well as the medieval hall of Little Malvern Court, a house of considerable historic interest b

Region: Ireland

A guide to the ornamental tradition that flourished during the late Stone Age and is characterised by carved and picked designs on megalithic chambered tombs, in particular, the most remarkable examples found today in the Boyne Valley of Co. Meath.