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Region: Britain - Midlands

The Weobley Castle Project was established to learn more about the remains in and around the village’s Castle Green.

Region: Turkey

Attractive catalogue of a private collection of ancient relics from Lycia divided into four sections - coins, pottery, glass and stonework.  106 objects are illustrated in excellent colour photographs and described with reference to material, size, purpose and design.  Bibliography.&nbs

Region: France

A guide to a hundred or so Romanesque churches arranged in ten geographical sections from Normandy and Burgundy in the north, to Provence, Roussillon and Languedoc in the south.  It is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subject and is an ideal companion for travellers.

Region: Britain

Catalogue of archaeological finds reported under the portable antiquities scheme from the Palaeolithic to the late Medieval periods with many of the finest examples described and illustrated in colour.  Also includes statistical tables and graphs analysing finds by region.

Region: China/Japan/Korea

An attractive full colour guide to the museum's collection of the finest examples of late C19th Japanese craftsmanship in porcelain, lacquer, needlework and cloisonné enamel.  52 objects are described and illustrated, each with a full page colour plate to itself.  Paperback.

Region: Egypt

A very large and sumptuous catalogue of an Atlanta exhibition of a huge range of ancient Egyptian artefacts on loan from the Petrie Museum in London.  160 objects get an entire page to themselves plus a high-quality colour photograph of each.  Large paperback.  206 pages.

Region: Eastern Europe

Published by Britain's cultural heritage support group this volume extols the virtues of the Bosnian regions of Jajce and Šipovo as destinations of interest to historians, anthropologists, speleologists, archaeologists and biologists.

Region: Africa

Large detailed guide to the ruins of Carthage illustrated with many excellent colour plates, maps and reconstrucitons and an extensive descriptive text, bibliography and chronology.   Hardback.  New condition.  Cat No 3083

Region: Britain - Scotland

When the blackhouse at No 42 Arnol in the Isle of Lewis was vacated in the 1960's it was entrusted to State care and today remains as a last link to a lost tradition.  Two aspects of a blackhouse make it different to a modern house - it was a residence for both people and animals, and it had

Theory & Practice: Buildings

Articles on hammer beam roofs in West Susex cottages, graffiti in West Midlands, vicars choral at English cathedrals, remodelling of roofs at Romsey Abbey, carpenters' marks on timbers.  Large format paperback.  126 pages,  Good clean condition.  Cat No 2765