Oxbow Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 13

British & Irish Prehistory

We’re getting down to Celtic roots with Day 13 of Oxbow Advent, featuring books all about British & Irish Prehistory.

Use code ADVENT13 when shopping at Casemate Academic to get 50% off these five books. This code is valid for today only, offer ending midnight.

The First Stones

Penywyrlod, Gwernvale and the Black Mountains Neolithic Long Cairns of South-East Wales

William Britnell, Alasdair Whittle

Results of recent research on the Neolithic long cairns lying in the shadow of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales.

9781789257397

Paperback

320 Pages

Defining Spaces in Iron Age Northumberland

Excavations at Morley Hill and Lower Callerton

Josh Gaunt, Claire Christie, Candy Hatherley, Alex Smith

Explores two examples of a previously unknown class of larger lowland settlement in Northumberland, allowing a better understanding of Iron Age settlement patterns, architectural forms and farming practices..

9781789258561

Paperback

160 Pages

Clachtoll

An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland

Graeme Cavers

Results of a major, community-based excavation of an Iron Age broch that collapsed in on itself after a fire, sealing a unique and undisturbed domestic assemblage.

9781789258479

Hardcover

336 Pages

Fragments of the Bronze Age

The Destruction and Deposition of Metalwork in South-West Britain and its Wider Context

Matthew G. Knight

An analysis of the deliberate destruction of Bronze Age metalwork from a new perspective.

9781789256970

Hardcover

200 Pages

Grave Goods

Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain

Anwen Cooper, Duncan Garrow, Catriona Gibson, Melanie Giles, Neil Wilkin

A large-scale investigation into grave goods (c. 4000 BC-AD 43), enabling a new level of understanding of mortuary practice, material culture, technological innovation and social transformation..

9781789257472

Hardcover

320 Pages

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Oxbow Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 13

British & Irish Prehistory