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The "Time Team" Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)

by Tim Taylor (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 329 pages
  • Publisher: Channel 4 Books, a division of Transworld Publishers (23 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905026013
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905026012
  • Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.4 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,833 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Channel 4's perennially popular Time Team take us on an archaeological sight-seeing tour of Britain and Ireland. Region by region, they select the most interesting and important sites which are open to public visitors, some familiar to all, others relatively unknown. Each is treated with the inimitable no-nonsense Time Team style. This book is like having Tony, Mick, Carenza and the gang in the back seat of your car - sharing their specialist knowledge and fascinating insights wherever you travel in the British Isles.


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Great Britain and Ireland are home to some of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall and Ironbridge are familiar to us all, and each year thousands of us flock to witness their spectacular beauty. But what can these fascinating sites teach us about the lives and times of our ancestors?
Here, in this beautifully illustrated and impeccably researched book, Tim Taylor and the experts behind Channel 4’s much-loved Time Team select Britain and Ireland’s most interesting archaeological sites and use their specialist knowledge to reveal the people behind the monuments - their ways of life, their religious beliefs and their impressive skills, strength, technology and ingenuity.
Split into regional chapters, the book features a range of unmissable locations from each area, and also focuses on the Time Team’s see-before-you-die sites, explaining just why they are so important to our understanding of the past. There is a guide to key points to watch out for at each major site, as well as often-missed fascinating facts from the archaeological reports, beautiful photographs and stunning reconstruction drawings from the show’s illustrator, Victor Ambrus.
Encompassing sites from hillforts and motte-and-bailey castles to Roman villas and Neolithic graves, this comprehensive guide provides a fresh, illuminating and invigorating insight into the human history behind the landscapes of Britain and Ireland.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful and informative book!, 5 April 2005
By Iceni Peasant (Norfolk, England) - See all my reviews
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Wow! This is a gorgeous book....and MUCH thicker and heavier than it first appears!

You don't have to have watched the Time Team TV series to like this book.

The book shows some of the best archaeological and historical sites in Britain and Ireland, some more famous than others. The book is structured into sections/regions, ie: South-west of England, East of England etc, with maps of the area to show their position. The site of interest is then described with the historical background, followed by information on how to get to the place for a visit, website addresses where possible and sometimes other information on other sites nearby.

Each site is illustrated with colour photos and/or diagrams or paintings, created by Victor the Time Team artist who interprets and gives life to how the historical sites may have looked in their own time.

The text is easy to read and to the point with no excessive waffle. It's the sort of book you don't have to read from start to finish, but can pick up from time to time and just read a few pages about a couple of sites at a time.

It's a truly beautiful book with some stunning photos, all printed on high quality paper. A must for the history fan and a definte MUST for the Time Team fan!

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A fine directory of 275 interesting archaeological sites, 5 Nov 2006
By S. Crane "Kiwi Guy" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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The Synopsis is a fair description: "Region by region the Time Team select the most interesting and important sites..."
But what are these sites. How many do they describe in detail. Allow me to explain:
In the book, Britain and Ireland is divided into 15 regions; 10 for England, Wales is one, Scotland in 2, and Ireland in 2. Then 2-4 sites are described in detail for each region, a total of 51 for the book, with two and occasionally four pages for each entry. Then in each region another 15 or so sites are very briefly described, with brief directions on how to drive to each, a total of 225 for the book. The contents page unfortunately does not list the 51 detailed sites so..
The Regions and the sites described in detail are:
South west- Maiden castle, Chysauster, Bath spa town, Glastonbury abbey
South- Avebury, Stonehenge, Portchester Roman fort,
London- Roman London, Globe theatre, Merton Abbey mills
South East- Boxgrove paleolithic site, Lullington Roman villa, Fishbourne Roman British palace
Heart of England- Wroxeter lost Roman city, Kenilworth castle ruins, Ironbridge gorge, Birmingham canals
East-Grimes graves, Flag Fen, Sutton Hoo, West Stow Anglo-saxon village
East Midlands- Creswell crags prehistoric art, Arbor Low stone circle, Lincoln city
North west England- Ribchester Roman fort, Cuerdale Viking hord, Liverpool docks & ralway
Yorkshire- York, Rievaulx abbey, Wharram Percy deserted medieval 1400's village,
North England- Hadrians wall, Vindolanda roman fort,Lindisfarne, Furness Abbey,
Wales- Castell Beullys iron age hillfort, Llangorse royal fortress in lake, Conwy castle, Blaenavan industrial revolution iron works
South Scotland- Crannog centre, Whithorn early Christian centre 400AD,
Scottish Highlands- Skara Brae, Maes Howe neolithic burial site, Iona early Christian settlement,
North Ireland- Navan prechristain religious sanctuary 100BC- 400AD, Nendrum early Christian centre 700AD
Republic of Ireland- Newgrange, Tara, Clonmacnoise medieval monastic site 500AD, Dublin, Turoe Stone Clonfert, Trim, Portumna

There are colour photos on every page, and 17 reconstruction drawings by TV show illustrator Victor Ambrus. There are no site plans for each site, pity. There is a map for each Region at a scale of about 1:1,000,000 showing roads, rivers and towns. It would have been nice if these maps were at a greater scale. You will need a 1;250,000 scale road atlas to find most sites. There is no "Further Reading" list for any site (not even Stonehenge) or the book as a whole, another omission. But there is a web site listed for each of the 51 major sites, often English Heritage or the National Trust.

These quibbles aside, the book is a fine directory of the more interesting archaeological sites open to the public in Britain and Ireland

The book finishes with a list of the Time Team's personal "Top Ten" sites: Grimes graves, Avebury, Newgrange, Maes Howe, Flag fen, Maiden Castle, bath, Sutton Hoo, Conwey castle and Ironbridge Gorge.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Archeology from the barbarian English invaders, 19 Jan 2009
By Paul M. T. Boyd (England, UK) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book because there was no compendium of all the Time Team digs since the show first aired in 1993. That's what's needed really. A written account of all the digs worth mentioning with pictures etc. I don't really care about the Saxon stuff because it's really boring , and there are no buildings left behind because they were built with wood and mud. The pre Roman stuff is a bit boring aswell really because the Celts basically lived in mud huts (sorry round houses). I don't really know why all the presenters are always going on and on about the evil Romans, and they even had one program where they did a racial profile and dna test, on one of the presenters to see if he was a Celt or Roman. Of course he was neither because he was English, and had an English surname, but they said that most of his genes were Celt genes. Correct me if I'm mistaken but Harding is an English name so therefore he's English. All the other presenters are English aswell and they're always going on about the Romans. I'm a Celt with a Scottish name and both my parents were Celts (Irish and Scottish), but I don't hate the Romans (Even though we're supposed to) If you like living in mud huts, not bathing and eating barley all day, fine but I think the Romans civilised this country and kept it relativley free at least until the English invaded in the fifth century. How can the Romans be the invaders when they were in Britian at least four hundred years before the English invaded? To me it's the English who are the invaders. Welsh people (who are the descendants of the Romanised Celts) Cornish (likewise) and Scots are forced to speak this barbaric language called English and pay taxes to the English, and yet it is the Romans who are the invaders? Personally I'd rather not be speaking the language of the barbarians and invaders. And I'm really sorry guys but if you've got an English surname then you're English. Whether you have some Celt genes from some poor woman in a forced marriage or, somebody raped, is neither here nor there. I'm not saying the Romans weren't evil because they obviously were. But I prefer them to the saxons, jutes, angles and other barbarians who invaded as soon as the Roman empire collapsed, because they knew they couldn't take on the Romans. I am trying to learn Gaelic at the moment (I can see all the superior English laughing), but I won't get on my high horse about some evil people who nevertheless bought civilisation and daily bathing to Britain unlike the beardy smelly English, who don't bathe and brought with them forced marriages and violence. The Romans had Latin and Civilisation as we know it today. The English had wooden churches and their barbaric culture and language. The Celts have been here since the end of the ice age 10,000 years ago and yet it is the English who are supposed to be indigenous. The fact that I'm writing this on a web site while all the the superior English are getting paid to swan around looking at out temples, villas ,baths, roads, and the ocassional English outdoor toilet, shows you something about who the bad guys are. The English have all the money and the propaganda tv shows like this one while I a Celt, am forced to write on an American web site my opinions. Having said all that I really like Time Team so keep up the good work guys and please release a compendium, so I can look at the glorious Roman world you the English destroyed when you invaded to build your mud huts and shacks.
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