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"Clay is an exceptionally versatile material. It can be made into many useful and beautiful objects, decorated in a splendid variety of ways and, if exposed to high temperatures, made into pottery. Both rich and poor have used pottery since the Stone Age, so the way the craft developed gives unusually clear insights into intimate details of lifestyle and outlooks in even remote periods.”
Pottery in Britain, a guide to identifying pot sherds, by Lloyd Laing, aims to provide an introductory guide to identifying some of the basic types of pottery that may be found and contains 178 illustrations, mainly in colour, divided into the following sections:
The potter’s craft
The study of pottery
Prehistoric pottery- the Neolithic Period circa 4000-2000BC
The Bronze Age circa 2000- 700BC
The Iron Age circa 700/ 600BCAD43
The Roman Period AD43 - circ AD409
The Dark Ages & Early Medieval Period
The Medieval Period - 11th-15th Centuries ? The 16th & 17th Centuries
The 18th & 19th Centuries
Glossary of terminology.
250mm x 190mm, 136 pages, ISBN
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This beautiful new A4 Hardback book looks at the artefacts from the period leading up to the end of Roman rule in Britain. The early chapters seek to understand what was happening in Britain at that time, while the second part looks in detail at examples of brooches, buckles, belt fittings and spurs that have been dated to that period. The end of Roman Britain continues to fascinate
and this publication uses many artefacts found by detectorists to make an important contribution to our
knowledge.
Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, together with 40 distribution maps, Roman Brooches and Buckles provides new information on typologies, the dates
when the objects were made and their distributions. It will be of
interest to metal detectorists and specialists alike.
Richard Henry is a finds specialist who has worked for the Portable
Antiquities Scheme as the Finds Liaison Officer for Wiltshire,
for Historic England and as a museum curator. He has published books
and articles on Roman archaeology, material culture, coinage and
hoards.
Full Colour, A4 Hardback, 152 pages, £26.95
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Pilgrim badges were bought by pilgrims visiting holy sites across Europe, partly as souvenirs, but also for the mystical properties these badges were believed to absorb when touched to holy relics. Such pilgrim trinkets are not common metal-detected finds, but given their fragile nature it is quite possible many metal detectorist have found them without realising it, perhaps even throwing them away! Many badges are unassuming little lead- or copper-alloy objects, but others have intricate designs, and can even be made of precious metal. This book offers an introduction to some of the more common badges, also giving further information on pilgrimage in the medieval period and the saints’ lives these badges celebrate.
Dr. Michael Lewis is Deputy Head of thePortable Antiquities Scheme and Curator, Medieval Collections, British Museum. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Member of the Institute for Archaeologists. He has a particular interest in the archaeology and history of the ‘medieval’ period from about AD 1000.
ISBN978-1-897738-55-9
168pp 250mm x 190mm
£21.95
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