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Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Descript |
1 online resource (x, 308 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Note |
Essays derived from a session at Institute for Archaeologists annual conference in 2007. |
Contents |
Cover; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Greatness in depth: Why excavations matter; 2 Some notable British excavations before 1900; 3 Sutton Hoo -- An archaeography; 4 Great excavations enhanced -- Birdoswald, Richborough, Whitby and the Chester amphitheatre; 5 Aspiring to greatness: The recent excavations at Maiden Castle; 6 The urban revolution: Martin Biddle's excavations in Winchester, 1961-1971; 7 The rural revolution: Excavation of the Iron Age and Roman farming settlement at Owslebury, Hampshire, 1961-1972; 8 The Danebury decades. |
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9 South Cadbury, the Breiddin, the Rescue Archaeology Group … and then respectability10 The legacy of Howe, thirty years after; 11 Writing into Land: Haddenham and the Lower Ouse environs; 12 Philip Barker's Wroxeter; 13 'Erik Bloodaxe Rules OK': 'The Viking Dig' at Coppergate, York; 14 The Manpower Services Commission and La Grava; 15 Mucking: Real heritage heroism or heroic failure?; 16 Growing up with Wharram Percy; 17 West Heslerton: Past, present and future; 18 Great Expectations, great excavations: The view from the trenches; 19 Great excavations, developer funding and the future. |
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20 What the Dickens happened to the IFA?21 Great Excavations?; Index. |
Alt author |
Schofield, John, 1948-
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ISBN |
9781842175729 (electronic bk.) |
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1842175726 (electronic bk.) |
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9781842174098 (pbk.) |
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1842174096 (pbk.) |
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