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Cartimandua's Capital?

Cartimandua's Capital?

The late Iron Age royal site at Stanwick, North Yorks, fieldwork and analysis 1981-2009

Edited by Colin Haselgrove

Series: CBA Research Report

Imprint: Council for British Archaeology

464 Pages, 275 illustrations

Hardcover
9781902771984
September 2016
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Famous for the excavations carried out by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1951–52, the late Iron Age earthwork complex at Stanwick, North Yorks, is the largest prehistoric site in northern England. The site was probably the seat of the Brigantian queen Cartimandua, and both the structures and the finds from the site reflect this status. A recent reevaluation of the radiocarbon dates has led to a new chronology which has rewritten our understanding of late Iron Age Britain. This volume reports not only on the excavations of the 1980s, but also synthesizes other work in the environs of the site.

Colin Haselgrove is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. His research focuses on the British and European Iron Age, on early coinage and currencies and on the Iron Age to Roman transition in the north-west Europe.

“This substantial volume contains an abundance of information… The immense erudition and intellectual rigour of the editor and lead author is evident throughout.” ~Vincent Guichard

“Overall, this is an immensely useful volume, wide-ranging and full of ideas, which will provide a new basis for our understandings of the Iron Age in northern England and provoke discussion for many years to come.” ~The Prehistoric Society

“The volume is thus no straightforward, archaeological report but a clever, meticulous review of how history, archaeology and landscape interpretation can link together and throw new light on the way we read the past.” ~Landscape History