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Region: Britain

Without question now the definitive book on the astronomical alignment of prehistoric standing stones and stone circles still found widely across the British Isles.

Theory & Practice: Instruments Tools & Weapons

A complete history, from the 1890's onwards, of the evolution of coin-operated entertainment slot-machines - bagatelle, pinball, 'what-the-butler-saw' and one-armed bandits - illustrated throughout in colour.  Includes a bibliography.  Large paperback.  28 pages.

Region: Britain - S. England

Inscribed as Ancient Woodland by English Nature, this booklet covers the history of Penn Wood through the ages from a Norman hunting chase, through its medieval charter boundaries, to enclosures in 1855 and records the successful campaign to purchase and preserve the wood in the face of a threat

Theory & Practice: Art History

An illustrated guide to the glass collections of: the British Museum; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh); the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford); the Bristol Museum; the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (Bedford); the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge); and the Merseyside M

Region: Mediterranean

This guide describes the Chalcolithic settlements discovered in the villages of Lempa and Kissonerga in western Cyprus, north of Paphos and presents detail on the sites circular buildings, tombs, offerings, objects of daily life, and pottery.

Theory & Practice: Technique

This is the most comprehensive survey ever conducted into archaeological employment in the UK.

Region: Eastern Europe

Fifteen papers presented at a symposium on the Chernyakhov culture of the 2nd-5th centuries which occupied a large area across present-day Ukraine.Moldova and Romania.  The authors detail the extent of recent excavations and archaeological research in several locations.

Region: France

An illustrated guidebook to the oldest silver mines visitable in Europe, exploited from the seventh to the tenth century in the Merovingian and Carolingian era to extract the precious metal necessary for the manufacture of coinage at the time of Charlemagne.  Paperback.  40 pages.

Region: Egypt

An attractive catalogue published to mark the Ontario Museum's contribution to the major exhibition in Paris 'The Art of the Egyptians at the Time of the Pyramids' and re-establishing the little known role played by Canadian egyptologists in exploring and excavating ancient Egyptian sites from th

Region: Britain - Midlands

The author re-examines the carved Saxon grave slabs and the remains of a Saxon cross shaft  discovered in the early C20th during church renovations and now conserved  in the church entrance.   He ascribes an earlier date than previously thought of C8th.