- Paperback: 72 pages
- Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd; 3rd Revised edition edition (2 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747804745
- ISBN-13: 978-0747804741
- Product Dimensions: 14.9 x 0.5 x 22.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #26 in Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Animal Sciences > Habitats > Desert
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Villages have been abandoned throughout history, and in every part of the British Isles. Some of them are former towns; others were only ever small hamlets. Many still await discovery. This book explains how villages have become deserted - often the result of disease and shrinking populations - and describes how the archaeologist recovers and interprets the evidence and shows how everyone can become involved in discovering and recording sites. Some good examples of sites worth visiting are included.
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Trevor Rowley is Deputy Director of the Department for Continuing Education of Oxford University. He is a geographer by training and is an acknowledged national authority on landscape history and village studies. John Wood is Senior Archaeologist for the Highland Council in Scotland. He has extensive experience of the survey and excavation of deserted villages, and since 1995 he has directed an annual field school at the deserted village of Easter Raitts, near Kingussie in Badenoch.
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I love the interest they manage to create in these little books. It manages to be interesting on every page and i will be buying more of the series. If i had any complaint it is that they are short books.
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2 July 2011
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The Shire Archeology Series are a favorite of mine. You get a good overview of the subject with a nice amount of technical detail. This edition is no exception. It is well illustrated with aerial photographs of the crop marks indicating the layout of the "villages". Quite a lot of information can be gathered just by examining the photographs.
I'm also fascinated by the fact that even though some of these once bustling settlements have been deserted for hundreds of years, they have left an indelible mark on the landscape.
I'm also fascinated by the fact that even though some of these once bustling settlements have been deserted for hundreds of years, they have left an indelible mark on the landscape.
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