Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Author: Alistair Marshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1789693608

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This volume covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality.


The Development of an Iron Age and Roman Settlement Complex at The Park and Bowsings, near Guiting Power, Gloucestershire: Farmstead and Stronghold

The Development of an Iron Age and Roman Settlement Complex at The Park and Bowsings, near Guiting Power, Gloucestershire: Farmstead and Stronghold

Author: Alistair Marshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1789693640

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Excavations near Guiting Power in the Cotswolds reveal evidence of occupation until the late 4th century AD: a relatively undefended middle Iron Age farmstead was abandoned, followed by a mid to later Iron Age ditched enclosure. This latter site perhaps became dilapidated, with a Romanised farmstead developing over the traditional habitation area.


Prehistoric Gloucestershire

Prehistoric Gloucestershire

Author: Timothy Darvill

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1445619946

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This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.


Orientation of Prehistoric Monuments in Britain: A Reassessment

Orientation of Prehistoric Monuments in Britain: A Reassessment

Author: Alistair Marshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2021-07-08

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 1789697069

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Reassesses major axial alignment at many megalithic ritual and funerary monuments (Neolithic to Bronze Age) in Britain and Ireland, not in terms of abstract astronomical concerns, but as an expression of repeated seasonal propitiation involving community, agrarian economy and ancestry in an attempt to mitigate variable environmental conditions.


Prehistoric Britain

Prehistoric Britain

Author: Timothy Darvill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1136973044

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Prehistoric Britain, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman conquest of AD 43, as revealed by archaeological evidence. Special attention is given to six themes which are traced through prehistory: subsistence, technology, ritual, trade, society, and population.


Forensic Archaeology

Forensic Archaeology

Author: John Hunter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0415273110

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods of forensic archaeology, and particularly to the the main areas of recovery, search, skeletal analysis and analytical science, where archaeology can play a major part in criminal cases.


A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017)

A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017)

Author: Tom Moore

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-07-30

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 178969535X

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This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the origins and nature of one of the lesser-known, but perhaps most significant, Late Iron Age 'oppida' in Britain: Bagendon in Gloucestershire.