A large volume of the annual proceedings of the Cornish Archaeological Society whose contents include an excavation report on a multi-period site ahead of road construction near St Austell and a Time Team excavation of the Gear Iron Age hillfort overlooking the Helford River.

Traces of polychrome painting remain on several of the carved stone decorations in this Anglo-Saxon church.  Using photomicrographs and chemical analysis it has been possible to identify pigments used and reconstruct the original paintings.  Paperback.  32 pages.

An album of seventy prehistoric and historic objects from the museum's collection, each illustrated in a full page colour photograph with accompanying description ranging from a Neanderthal's stone hand axe to the Medieval Oxwich brooch and including the Maesmor Neolithic mace head, the Iron Age

A truly massive book providing very extensive details on the many cultural protection projects that have been undertaken by the state authorities in recent years countering threats by earthquake, urban encroachment, and dam construction.  Covering world heritage sites, cultural landscapes, a

Special issue of the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture.  Articles include - A Recent Neolithic Burial-ritual Rock Art Discovery in Northern Sardinia; Graffiti at Heritage Places; Upper Paleolithic Parietal Art Found in Coliboaia Cave, Romania; Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the

Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group volume. Topics covered include - Conservation of a Tin Tabernacle; Linlithgow Medieval Town House; Changing Techniques in Thatching; Hand Wrought Nails; Brick Making in New South Wales. Paperback. 104 pages. Illustrated. Good clean condition.

The Prospero Collection was the most prestigious collection of early Greek coins ever to come to auction and sold in Januray 2012 for a record-breaking $3.25m.