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by Timothy Darvill (Author), Jane Timby (Author), Paul Stamper (Author) "Travelling around England is in many senses a journey backwards in time ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 493 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford (14 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192841017
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192841018
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.2 x 3.2 cm
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Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles, ancient churches, and Roman villas are commonplace and take us back to the time of Christ. Far older, yet equally abundant, are the barrows, hillforts, stone circles, camps, standing stones, trackways, and other relics of prehistoric times that have survived for several thousand years. This Guide is all about these ancient remains: the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval sites which date from the time between the first appearance of people in what we now call England during the last Ice Age and the end of medieval times around 1600 AD.

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Timothy Darvill is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University. The author of over a dozen books, including Prehistoric Britain (Routledge, 1998) and Prehistoric Britain from the Air (CUP, 1996), he has served as Chairman of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and a Member of the Council of the National Trust.
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A useful little book for the sunday drive or for the more adventerous with well informed info, good grid referances and a size that makes it easy to carry.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Too many sites in one book, 26 Jan 2009
By Torben Retboll (Thailand) - See all my reviews
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Oxford University Press has published a series of archaeological guidebooks. So far, seven volumes have appeared: Greece, the Holy Land, Rome, Scotland, Southern France, Spain and England. The series is edited by Barry Cunliffe, who is professor of European archaeology at Oxford University and one of the most famous British archaeologists. As a young man he took part in the excavations of Fishbourne Palace in southern England. The official guidebook about this site is written by him. He is also the author of the official guidebook about the Roman baths in Bath.

The volume about England is written by Timothy Darvill, Paul Stamper and Jane Timby who are specialists in English history and archaeology.

The archaeological guidebook for England covers more than 500 sites from 12 regions and from nine different historical periods.

The book begins with an historical introduction (68 pages). After this, the main section of the book follows: Twelve chapters which correspond to the twelve regions. Within each chapter, the sites are listed in alphabetical order.

The book ends with a chronological survey, a glossary, a list of museums, an annotated bibliography, and a list of relevant addresses (including websites). The index covers only the sites. Therefore it is impossible to find important persons or topics in the index, which is a shame.

The book is illustrated with several black and white photographs and several drawings, partly maps of some cities, partly maps of some sites.

Scattered around the book there are some sidebars which cover different topics which are relevant for English archaeology and history: the druids, the Roman army, the Black Death, etc.

Some of the sites mentioned in this book I have visited myself. One way to evaluate this book is to investigate what it says about the sites I know from personal experience. The result of this investigation is positive as well as negative:

It is positive, because I have not found any false information about these sites. It is negative, because the descriptions of the sites are far too brief. This statement is valid for nearly the whole book. Far too many sites receive only half a page or even less. Only a few sites receive more space than this, but they are the exception: York (4 pages) and London (6 pages).

Some descriptions are accompanied by an illustration, a photo or a drawing, but far from all. There are 200 illustrations, but there are more than 500 sites. Therefore you do not really get a feel for each individual site when you read the descriptions in the book.

I had the volume about Spain with me on a trip to Spain. It was very useful. I had the volume about southern France with me on a trip to southern France. It was very useful. Accordingly, I had great expectations for this volume about England. But unfortunately, it does not live up to my expectations.

This is not a guidebook which can guide you around when you visit an archaeological zone. Rather it is a dictionary, which can tell you how many archaeological sites there are in different regions of England. But who needs this?

In my opinion, the authors have made a serious misjudgement by including too many sites. They should have limited the number to 100 or maybe 200. If they had done this, they would have been able to give a decent description of each site and to place an illustration or two for each site.

I cannot understand why the general editor or the publisher did not react when they saw the manuscript of this book. The authors should have been told to take a different approach.

Their assignment was to produce a guidebook, not a phonebook. Sometimes, of course, a phonebook is quite useful, but most people do not want to sit and read it.

Another puzzle: the authors have been given a look of space. Why? The volume about southern France has 211 pages. The book about Spain has 328 pages. The book about Rome has 464. But this book is even longer. It has 493 pages. The introduction is numbered with Roman numerals. It goes to page xxvii. If you count these pages as well, we have more than 500 pages. Why must this volume be so thick? Is it a case of patriotism?

Apparently, the quality of the volumes in this series differs a good deal. This is rather strange. Usually, the volumes in a series will have the same quality.

I want to recommend the volume about Spain and the volume about southern France. But I see no reason to recommend this volume about England.


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