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Chapelwood 12-inch Eco Sunflower Seed Feeder
Chapelwood 12-inch Eco Sunflower Seed Feeder
Price: £7.99

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good design, 29 April 2013
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The stainless steel design is very good, it means this feeder will last a lot longer than ones with cheaper materials

Briers Garden Clog Grn S6 B2096
Briers Garden Clog Grn S6 B2096
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Price: £8.49

4.0 out of 5 stars Much easier than wellies, 18 April 2013
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More comfortable and easier to put on than wellies for those "must rush down the garden" jobs. The sizing is quite generous, I ordered a size 9 and probably should have ordered a size smaller.

The History of Britain Revealed: The Shocking Truth About the English Language
The History of Britain Revealed: The Shocking Truth About the English Language
by Michael John Harper
Edition: Hardcover

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Read the book and make up your own mind., 20 Jan 2013
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It's clear from the Ad Hominem attacks in some of the reviews that the author has rattle the cage of a few orthodox historians. But if their position was so well-founded, they could just tell us how and why, instead of abusing MJ Harper and his witty and thought-provoking book. It deserves to be read.

The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
by Barry Cunliffe
Edition: Hardcover

5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary book about an extraordinary voyage, 20 Dec 2012
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Barry Cunliffe deserves praise for shining a light on a very early part of British history. It also helps roll-back the boundaries of what is "pre-history", before written records were the norm.

Stonehenge: Solving the Neolithic Universe
Stonehenge: Solving the Neolithic Universe
Price: £1.78

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars At last! A good engineering perspective of what Stonehenge was for., 27 Nov 2012
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For far too long, traditional archeologists have obsessed about the remains of a few dead people found scattered around Stonehenge. Without contributing any great progress in understanding what living people had designed, built and used Stonehenge for. This is a great step forward. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in Megalithic Engineering and a highly skilled scientific culture that spread for thousands of miles along the western coast of Europe and across the Meditterranean sea.
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Megalithic Empire, The
Megalithic Empire, The
by M J Harper
Edition: Hardcover
Price: £12.76

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent new view on megalithic life, 20 Nov 2012
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Some traditional archeologists (TA) will hate this book. Why? Because TAs tend to have an obsession with death, priests and war, and anything they find that is not recognisable is called a Religious Artifact. In fact, there is an ever-mounting body of evidence to show that in many respects megalithic life was not that different from ours. i.e. while we hear stories of death and war, 99% of us are peacefully engaged in getting on with life and our jobs.

Megalithic jobs meant agriculture, farming, industry and trade. Trade was the thread that ties the whole of megalithic life together, and that trading network was spread over thousands of miles of Europe, by land and by sea. The British Isles was a home for industry even 5,000 years ago, as people came from all over Europe for highly valuable metals like tin, copper, silver and gold, which were mined and refined here before being exported in exchange for other trade goods. Stories of this megalithic culture became legend as far away as Greece and Egypt.

The authors of Megalithic Empire have done a great job of turning the TAs perspective on its head in a highly informative and entertaining way, with an emphasis on how people found their way around in an area before printed maps as we know them.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a UK keyboard, 29 Jun 2012
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Probably my own fault for assuming a keyboard being sold on a UK website would be a UK keyboard. Actually it's a US keyboard (no £ sign, etc). As a keyboard, it's fine.

Classic Amber Sterling Silver and Tear Shaped Cognac Amber Drop Earrings with Fixed Hook and Safety Catch
Classic Amber Sterling Silver and Tear Shaped Cognac Amber Drop Earrings with Fixed Hook and Safety Catch
Price: £11.38

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Better earings, 20 Jan 2012
My wife likes these kind of earings more than any other, because the hook and catch makes them cleaner to wear and harder to loose.

Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
by Christopher Knight
Edition: Paperback
Price: £7.19

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, 7 Oct 2011
Some good original source material in this book, some but not too much recycling from other books. A good progression from Uriel's Machine. Hopefully this will be inspiration for an aspiring astro-archeology student, because there's lots more field work and statistical analysis to be done on the geographic correlations with other henges in the south of Britain.

The Hockey Stick Illusion;Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds)
The Hockey Stick Illusion;Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds)
by A W Montford
Edition: Paperback
Price: £8.35

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent scientific detective work, 11 Mar 2010
Excellent detective work, this is proper scientific investigation - not pro-warming politics or belief wrapped in spin. It opens the lid on the way our trust has been abused by pseudo-science presented as "fact" when it is far from that.

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