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Roman Imperial Armour: The production of early imperial military armour
by D. Sim and J. Kaminski
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial Armour presents an examination of the ...
Paperback. GB £25.00, GB £18.95
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Discover Medieval Sandwich: A Guide to its History and Buildings
by Helen Clarke
Sandwich today is a quiet Kentish town on the banks of the river Stour where small pleasure craft tie up at The Quay. It is hard to imagine that in medieval times there was a wide expanse of water, Sandwich Haven, which provided a calm anchorage for every sort of vessel from Anglo-Saxon longships preparing to take on Viking invaders to fleets of Venetian galleys laden with exotic cargoes. Nor does Sandwich now stand at the entrance to a main ...
Paperback. GB £12.95, GB £9.95
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An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
by Andrew Meirion Jones, Davina Freedman, Blaze O'Connor, Hugo Lamdin-Whymark, Richard Tipping and Aaron Watson
The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also has the greatest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the British Isles and some of the most impressive rock art sites. An Animate Landscape contains the results of a major research project that ...
Paperback. GB £35.00, GB £28.00
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Corrstown: A Coastal Community. Excavations of a Bronze Age Village in Northern Ireland
by Victoria Ginn and Stuart Rathbone
Corrstown in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, is a highly important Bronze Age site. This came to light during excavations carried out by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in 2002-2003, the results of which are detailed here. A total of 74 Middle Bronze Age roundhouse platforms was identified and organised into pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to be contemporary. ...
Paperback. GB £35.00, GB £26.95
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An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers from Britain
by Ann Woodward and John Hunter, with David Bukach, Fiona Roe, Peter Webb, Rob Ixer, John Watson and Phil Potts
This volume present a detailed study of the thin, usually rectangular, pieces of pierced fine stone that occur in inhumation graves of Beaker date mainly of the second half of the third millennium cal BC. These objects are considered to be archer's bracers or wristguards. The study forms part of a more wide-ranging research project to identify more accurately the significance of burial assemblages from Beaker and Early Bronze Age contexts in ...
Hardback. GB £45.00, GB £33.95
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Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit Deposition: Beyond the Mundane
edited by Hugo Anderson-Whymark and Julian Thomas
The rise to prominence of pits within narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in recent literature. Pits have been cropping up in excavations for centuries, resulting in a very broad spectrum of interpretations but three main factors have led to the recent change in our perception and representation of these features: a broad shift in people's expectations as to what a Neolithic settlement should be; the development of ...
Paperback. GB £35.00, GB £26.95
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Episodes in the Gothic Revival: six church architects
edited by Christopher Webster
The stylistic shift during the nineteenth century which saw the Classical tradition challenged by a renewed interest in Gothic was one of the centurys most profound architectural developments. It was the result of a diverse range of influences, but ultimately the Gothic Revival was the product of a series of groundbreaking architects, each of which added his own particular contribution to the movement.
The book identifies six of these ...
Hardback. GB £34.95, GB £28.00
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'Where Sky and Yorkshire and Water Meet': The Story of the Melton Landscape from Prehistory to the Present
by Chris Fenton-Thomas
An account of the multi-period, 13-hectare, excavations associated with a road scheme on the A63 at Melton, East Yorkshire and funded by the Highways Agency. They revealed buildings, boundaries, burials and tracks associated with a late Iron Age and early Roman ladder settlement and showed that its origins lay in the early centuries of the first millennium BC. Many occupation sites of this period, in East Yorkshire, show little apparent change at ...
Paperback. GB £25.00
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San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops
by Richard Hodges, Sarah Leppard and John Mitchell
The San Vincenzo Project began in 1980 as a collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archaeologica del Molise. Its initial focus was the small frescoed crypt of 'San Lorenzo' (later known as the Crypt Church), which was in urgent need of conservation. Over the following eighteen years, a large multidisciplinary project was undertaken involving archaeologists, historians and art historians. This consisted of major open-area excavations of the early ...
Hardback. GB £80.00
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The Cemetery of Meir: Volume 1: The tomb of Pepyankh-the Middle
Naguib Kanawati with contributions by E. Alexakis, A.L. Mourad, S. Shafik, N. Victor and A. Woods
The tomb of Pepyankh-the Middle is completely preserved, containing valuable information on various aspects of the Egyptian provincial administration and on daily life in the Sixth Dynasty. Both burial shafts of the tomb owner and his wife end in beautifully decorated and extremely well preserved burial chambers. This book presents a new record in line drawings and coloured photographs of all architectural and artistic features of the entire ...
Paperback. GB £75.00
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Ancient Coins from Asia Minor and the East: Selections from the Colin Pitchfork Collection
edited by Nicholas Wright
This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of coins from Asia Minor and the East from the Colin Pitchfork Collection. The enlarged pictures are designed to allow close inspection of detail for the serious collector but it is also suitable for those who have a more general interest in this region. 170p, col illus (Ancient Coins in Australian Collections 2, Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies, 2011)
Paperback. GB £40.00
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Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean
edited by Damian Robinson and Andrew Wilson
Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean comprises twelve papers that look at the shifting patterns of maritime trade as seen through archaeological evidence across the economic cycle of Classical Antiquity. Papers range from an initial study of Egyptian ship wrecks dating from the sixth to fifth century BC from the submerged harbour of Heracleion-Thonis through to studies of connectivity and trade in the eastern ...
Hardback. GB £40.00
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