Brown, Graham / Field, David et al. The Avebury Landscape - Aspects of the Field Archaeology of the Marlborough Downs. Oxbow Books Limited, 2005.

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Graham Brown / David Field / David McOmish / Deborah Cunliffe

The Avebury Landscape

Aspects of the Field Archaeology of the Marlborough Downs

Oxbow Books Limited
2005

Taschenbuch
240 Seiten
ISBN 9781842171523

It is over one hundred years since the publication of the wide ranging archaeological field investigation undertaken on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev AC Smith. As in most works of inventory the volume has certainly stood the test of time and is still one of the basic reference texts for students of the area. Since then, apart from a few notable exceptions, archaeological literature about the area has been largely sit-based and there has been little concerning the Marlborough Downs as a whole. In order to try and redress this imbalance, a day conferece was organised in April 2002 at the University of Bath, Swindon,

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where it was possible to acknowledge and mark the ongoing validity of Smith's work and where a number of papers on various aspects of recent research on the Marlborough Downs were presented. The results of the conference are presented in this volume, together with a number of other commissioned contributions from individuals who have undertaken research in the area during the last decade or so. Each essays stands alone, but they are connected by a common theme, that of the land and how it has changed over millennia

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