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Somerset Archaeology: Papers to Mark 150 Years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

Edited by C J Webster

A collection of papers on all aspects of the archaeology of Somerset arising from a conference held at Dillington in 1999 to celebrate 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Published as a book in 2000 and online in 2007 - the book is now out of print.

Front Matter [ 38.3k] 150 years of Somerset Archaeology: looking backwards and into the next millennium by Philip Rahtz [ 186.7k] Aerial reconnaissance in Somerset by Frances Griffith and Bill Horner [1445.0k] Finding our past: the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Somerset and Dorset by Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen [ 243.1k] The skill of the Neolithic bowyers: reassessing the past through experimental archaeology by Stuart Prior [ 270.8k] Cadbury Castle: focusing the landscape by Richard Tabor [ 651.8k] The Shapwick Project 1989-99 by Christopher Gerrard [1072.5k] The Quaternary mammal collections at the Somerset County Museum, Taunton by Andrew Currant [ 46.3k] The Late Pleistocene Archaeology of Somerset by Roger Jacobi [ 203.3k] Early humans in the Vale of Taunton: a new perspective by Chris Norman [ 380.5k] A consideration of Somerset´s holocene environments by Vanessa Straker [ 232.7k] Neolithic and Bronze Age Somerset: a wetland perspective by Richard Brunning [ 627.3k] The Iron Age wetlands of central Somerset by Stephen Minnitt [ 658.0k] The Dark Ages by Chris Webster [ 418.3k] Clayland colonisation: recent work on Romano-British and medieval reclamation in the Somerset Levels by Stephen Rippon [ 450.7k] Medieval Rural settlement by Mick Aston [ 826.5k] Monasteries in Somerset by Mick Aston [ 566.2k] Somerset parks and gardens after the Middle Ages: the archaeology of the formal garden, c.1540-1730 by James Bond [ 876.3k] Whither (or wither?) Somerset´s industrial heritage by Brian Murless [ 866.7k] The notable 1990s: an important decade for the historic environment of Exmoor by Veryan Heal [ 367.7k] Post-Medieval pottery studies in Somerset by John Allan [ 31.9k] Twenty-five years of planning and archaeology in Somerset by Bob Croft [ 500.7k] Bibliography [ 89.5k]