Prehistoric Books

50 years of archaeological research in Wessex

Edited by Rowan Whimster

For many people, Wessex means Stonehenge, Avebury and the other iconic monuments of prehistory. In reality its chalkland landscapes have played host to a far longer and richer sequence of communities – from Palaeolithic hunters to Iron Age farmers and Roman citizens; from Anglo-Saxon settlers and medieval merchants to the navvies who built the Kennet & Avon Canal and the Australian soldiers who trained for the trenches of the First World War.

Mesolithic Occupation at Bouldnor Cliff

and the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of the Solent

Edited by Garry Momber, David Tomalin, Rob Scaife, Julie Satchell and Jan Gillespie

At the start of the Mesolithic period, some 8000 years ago, sea levels in the North Sea and the English Channel were some 30 to 40m lower than those of today – Britain was a peninsula of northern Europe.

Where Rivers Meet

The archaeology of Catholme and the Trent-Tame confluence

Simon Buteux and Henry Chapman

This book is the story of an area of landscape in the English Midlands from earliest prehistory to around AD 900. Although it looks like a typical rural landscape, archaeological research, much of it in advance of quarrying, has revealed that this area has a long and remarkable history of occupation stretching back to the Ice Age.

Europe’s Lost World

The rediscovery of Doggerland

by Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch & David Smith

Winner of the 2010 Best Archaeological Book award

This book, which examines climate change in the past, will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the North Sea Basin, from archaeologists, geomorphologists and climatologists, to the interested public.

Sutton Common

The excavation of an Iron Age ‘marsh-fort’

Edited by Robert Van de Noort, Henry P Chapman and John R Collis

RR154 cover Sutton Common in South Yorkshire is one of the best-known Iron Age multivallate sites in lowland Britain. This volume describes the results of the large-scale excavations undertaken here between 1998 and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights into the function and meaning of this 4th-century BC ‘marsh-fort’.

Prehistoric Coastal Communities

The Mesolithic of western Britain

edited by Martin Bell

This volume provides ground-breaking new evidence about prehistoric life in Britain – focusing on the little studied communities of the South West and Wales. New evidence from these intertidal and coastal zones now allows a reassessment of Mesolithic people and their settlements, as well as providing valuable case studies from nationally important Bronze Age sites.

Conderton Camp, Worcestershire

A middle Iron Age hillfort on Bredon Hill

by Nick Thomas

This is a detailed account of a small Middle Iron Age hillfort on Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, which enclosed 1.9 hectares. Roughly oval and aligned along a spur, it had simple entrances at each end.

Submarine Prehistoric Archaeology of the North Sea

Research priorities and collaboration with industry

edited by Nic Flemming

This fascinating volume on submerged prehistoric landscapes of the North Sea brings together for the first time comparative archaeological evidence from Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and the UK.

Towards a New Stone Age

Aspects of the Neolithic in south east England

edited by Jonathan Cotton & David Field

This volume fills a significant gap in prehistoric studies. It combines a series of regional overviews on such subjects as soils, aerial survey and human remains with contributions on specific sites, artefacts and the natural environment.

Prehistoric Intertidal Archaeology in the Welsh Severn Estuary

by Martin Bell, Astrid Caseldine and Heike Neumann

The Welsh Severn Estuary has perhaps the greatest concentration of prehistoric intertidal archaeology yet found in Britain.

The Walton Basin Project

Excavation and Survey in a Prehistoric Landscape 1993–7

by Alex Gibson

The Walton Basin lies on the Welsh borderland and is a discrete lowland parcel of land which is surrounded by uplands. Numerous flint scatters and monuments have been discovered which date from the Mesolithic to the Roman invasion and indeed later.

Excavations at Caldicot, Gwent

by Nigel Nayling and Astrid Caseldine

The site at Caldicot, located on the alluviated floodplain of the river Nedern, a small tributary of the Severn Estuary, south-west Britain, comprised a complex sequence of alluvium and palaeochannels dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

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