This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.
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"...[a] fascinating book....This volume is a great reference resource, a delightful survey for anyone to flip through, and an essential aid to everyone interested in Britain's prehistoric legacy." Choice
"This is a handsomely produced presentation of 140 photgraphs selected from the vast...archives of the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography.... The brief discussions that accompany the aerial photographs are well done. This book has a large number of pluses. The all-important photographs are clearly reproduced, large enough to see detail, and often beautiful. As a collection that demonstrates the great wealth and variety of British prehistoric sites, as well as situating them in their immediate (if modern) landscape, it is unparalleled. The aerial views allow a grasp of site pattern and situation that is difficult to obtain on the ground....the book belongs in the library of every institution concerned with British archaeology or aerial photography." Elizabeth G. Hamilton, Albion
"This is a handsomely produced presentation of 140 photgraphs selected from the vast...archives of the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography.... The brief discussions that accompany the aerial photographs are well done. This book has a large number of pluses. The all-important photographs are clearly reproduced, large enough to see detail, and often beautiful. As a collection that demonstrates the great wealth and variety of British prehistoric sites, as well as situating them in their immediate (if modern) landscape, it is unparalleled. The aerial views allow a grasp of site pattern and situation that is difficult to obtain on the ground....the book belongs in the library of every institution concerned with British archaeology or aerial photography." Elizabeth G. Hamilton, Albion
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This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.
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The chance to gaze down on the landscape from high above has for millennia been the preserve of birds, gods and the spirits of the air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following radiocarbon dates, round barrow cemeteries, banjo enclosures, developed hillforts, oval barrow, pit alignment, bowl barrows, raw radiocarbon dates, ripening cereals, old oswestry, view looking southwest, causewayed enclosure, mortuary enclosures, view looking northwest, bank barrow, clearance cairns, view looking southeast, portal dolmen, concentric ditches, barrow cemetery, ceremonial monuments, enclosure boundary, view looking northeast, enclosure ditch, round barrows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Crickley Hill, Durrington Walls, Skomer Island, Silbury Hill, Grimes Graves, Long Meg, Quarley Hill, Rams Hill, Windmill Hill, Barrow Hills, Broome Heath, Creswell Crags, Dorset Cursus, Fussell's Lodge, Great Orme, Hambledon Hill, Harrow Hill, Hod Hill, Maes Howe, Maiden Castle, Meldon Bridge, North Yorkshire, West Penwith, Bant's Carn New!
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The chance to gaze down on the landscape from high above has for millennia been the preserve of birds, gods and the spirits of the air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following radiocarbon dates, round barrow cemeteries, banjo enclosures, developed hillforts, oval barrow, pit alignment, bowl barrows, raw radiocarbon dates, ripening cereals, old oswestry, view looking southwest, causewayed enclosure, mortuary enclosures, view looking northwest, bank barrow, clearance cairns, view looking southeast, portal dolmen, concentric ditches, barrow cemetery, ceremonial monuments, enclosure boundary, view looking northeast, enclosure ditch, round barrows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Crickley Hill, Durrington Walls, Skomer Island, Silbury Hill, Grimes Graves, Long Meg, Quarley Hill, Rams Hill, Windmill Hill, Barrow Hills, Broome Heath, Creswell Crags, Dorset Cursus, Fussell's Lodge, Great Orme, Hambledon Hill, Harrow Hill, Hod Hill, Maes Howe, Maiden Castle, Meldon Bridge, North Yorkshire, West Penwith, Bant's Carn New!
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- Skara Brae by V. Gordon Childe on page 83, and Back Matter
- Prehistoric Avebury, Second Edition by Aubrey Burl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Peak District (Aa/Os Leisure Guide) by Automobile Association of Britain on page 109
- Stonehenge Environs Project, the (English Heritage Archaeologica) by Julian C. Richards in Back Matter
- AA Leisure Guide: The Peak District: Walks, Tours & Places to See (AA Leisure Guides) by AA Publishing on page 109
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- Oxford Archaeological Guides- England by Timothy Darvill in Back Matter
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Timothy Darvill in Front Flap
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