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Field Archaeology In Great Britain (Ordnance Survey)

CONTENTS:

1)  Introduction; Archaeological Fieldwork; Field Archaeology and excavation, Detective work, Natural hazards, Air photography and archaeology, Mass photography and single prints, Sources of air photographs. Practical application: Built-up areas; Arable; Pasturage; Rough country;  Water; Commercial excavation.

2) Time Scales; Prehistoric Antiquities including Lower and Middle Palaeolithic; Upper Palaeolithic; Open sites; Caves; Mesolithic; Sites and relics; 

3) Neolithic; Field monuments; Long barrows, Long mortuary enclosures, Chambered barrows and chambered cairns, Causewayed camps, Cursus, Henge monuments, Dwellings, Upright stones, Flint mines and axe factories.

4) Bronze Age Field monuments; Stone circles; Standing stones; cup-and-ring marks; Round barrows and round cairns, enclosed cremation cemeteries; Cultivation; Settlements and houses; Mines.

5) Iron Age Field monuments; Settlements and houses: Hill-Forts; Brochs; Wheel-houses, aisled round houses; Other stone built dwellings in northern, central and southern Britain' Palisaded homesteads and settlements; Unenclosed platform settlements; Scooped enclosures; Cultivation; Lake dwellings and crannogs; Fogous and souterrains; Barrows and burials; Mines, quarries and salterns.

4) The Roman Period Field monuments: Military works; Temporary camps; Forts; Legionary forts; Fortlets; Signal stations; Beacons; Late Roman military works; Towns; Roads and milestones; Smaller centres of occupation, villas and agriculture.

5) The Dark Ages and The Early Medieval Period Anglo-Saxon England: Towns; Smaller centres of occupation and houses; Defensive works; Pagan and Christian monuments; Pagan shrines; Christian churches and monasteries; Crosses; Cemeteries and burials; The Celtic west and north of Britain: Dwelling places; Christian monuments; Long cist burials; Viking defensive works and settlements.

6) The Mediaval and Post-Medieval Period Field monuments; Mottes; Monasteries; Homestead moats; Cultivation; Deserted medieval towns and villages-England and Wales; Deserted medieval villages and crofts-Scotland; Welsh platform houses; Enclosure banks; Industrial sites; Mines, quarrying and smelting; Kilns; Salt-making; Windmills, water-mills and power mills; Civil War Sites.

7) Industrial Archaeology 

8) Miscellaneous Linear earthworks; Trackways; Open-air cooking places; Mazes and cock-pits;

Bibliography

184 pages; 30 text figures, diagrams, plans etc., softback. Few copies remaining of this out of print title.

Price: £35.00 + £4.00 p&p U. K. (Ref: b0226)