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Title Great excavations : shaping the archaeological profession / edited by John Schofield.
Publication Info Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, ©2011.



Descript 1 online resource (x, 308 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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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.
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.
20 What the Dickens happened to the IFA?21 Great Excavations?; Index.
ISBN 9781842175729 (electronic bk.)
1842175726 (electronic bk.)
9781842174098 (pbk.)
1842174096 (pbk.)
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Subject Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Alt author Schofield, John, 1948-
Descript 1 online resource (x, 308 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier 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.
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.
20 What the Dickens happened to the IFA?21 Great Excavations?; Index.
ISBN 9781842175729 (electronic bk.)
1842175726 (electronic bk.)
9781842174098 (pbk.)
1842174096 (pbk.)
Subject Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Alt author Schofield, John, 1948-

Subject Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 308 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier 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.
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.
20 What the Dickens happened to the IFA?21 Great Excavations?; Index.
Alt author Schofield, John, 1948-
ISBN 9781842175729 (electronic bk.)
1842175726 (electronic bk.)
9781842174098 (pbk.)
1842174096 (pbk.)

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