New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

itish archaeology
A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape
in Northamptonshire
The Raunds Area Project Data
by Jan Harding and Frances Healy
This volume is the detailed monument and landscape analysis, environmental specialist
reports, and finds reports catalogues (including tables of data and interpretations
and finds drawings). This volume of data accompanies A Neolithic and Bronze Age
Landscape in Northamptonshire: The Raunds Area Project (English Heritage 2007).
500p, illus, paperback, 9781848020054, $90,00, English Heritage, October 2009.
Swaledale
Valley of the Wild River
by Andrew Fleming
This is a reprint of the first edition, published in 1998 by Edinburgh University Press.
Now with an updated preface and color illustrations throughout, this beautiful book
tells the story of Swaledale, a well-loved part of the North Yorkshire Pennines. It
shows how the perspectives of archaeology, history and ecology can be linked to
transform our understanding of the landscape.
166p, col & b/w illus, paperback, 9781842173725, $50.00, Windgather Press, August 2009.
Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire (1986–96)
Investigations of a Landscape in the Lower Lugg Valley
by Robin Jackson and Darren Miller
This volume presents the results of the first 10 years of archaeological investigation
at Wellington Quarry. During this time, a regionally unique archaeological and palaeoenvironmental
sequence was recorded covering nearly 8000 years of interrelated
human activity and landscape change in the Lower Lugg Valley. Starting with use by
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the heavily wooded floodplain witnessed periods of sporadic
occupation and activity throughout prehistory and until the early 5th century AD.
208p, 57 tbls, 79 b/w & col illus, hardback, 9781842173664, $60.00, Oxbow Books,
December 2009.
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Land and People
Papers in Memory of John G Evans
edited by Michael J Allen, Niall Sharples and Terry O’Connor
This volume is derived from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School
of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March
2006. The volume is divided into five sections, which include papers on aspects of
environmental archaeology, experiments and philosophy; new research on the nature
of woodland on the chalklands of southern England; coasts and islands; people,
process and social order, and snails and shells - a strong part of John Evans’ career.
240p, 99 b/w illus, 13 tbls, hardback, 9781842173732, $70.00, Oxbow Books,
December 2009.
An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort,
Warminster and Sites along the Southern Range Road
by Chris Ellis and Andrew B Powell
Construction of a tank road through part of Salisbury Plain, from Warminster to
Tilshead, has revealed archaeological remains dating from the Neolithic up to the
modern use of the Plain for military training. Excavation adjacent to Battlesbury
Camp hillfort has uncovered Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age settlement activity
including ditches, roundhouses, four-post structures and numerous pits.
Detailed environmental investigation has provided information about both the
nature of the on-site activities and the character of the surrounding landscape.
218p, b/w illus, hardback, 9781874350477, $20.00, Wessex Archaeology,
December 2008, Wessex Archaeological Reports 22.
Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in the North
Gloucestershire Severn Vale
edited by Neil Holbrook
Two reports are published in this volume:
Prehistoric and Early Historic
Activity, Settlement and Burial at Walton
Cardiff, near Tewkesbury: Excavations at
Rudgeway Lane 2004-2005, and Romano-
British Agriculture at the former St James’s
Railway Station, Cheltenham: Excavations
in 2000-2001. Significant remains from
Rudgeway Lane include two Middle
Bronze Age parallel ditches, and a Middle
Iron Age enclosure superseded by settlements of the 1st–3rd century AD. At the
St James’s site in Cheltenham, excavation revealed a field system that was used
and developed throughout the Roman period, together with a number of pits
and postholes, with two late 4th century AD burials.
112p, 29 illus, paperback, 9780955353437, $15.95, Cotswold Archaeology,
May 2009, Gloucestershire Archaeological Reports 6.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009