Author: Timothy Darvill
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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"Long barrows, with their massive tapering mounds and hidden burial chambers, bear witness to the architectural proficiency of our ancestors. Built by early farming communities between 4000 and 3000 B.C., they form part of western Europe's earliest surviving architecture. Today they are familiar features of our landscape, with over 200 examples scattered across the picturesque Cotswold Hills, north Wessex Downs, and the hills and vales west of the River Severn." "As well as exploring their design, construction and purpose, and the ceremonies that took place at these impressive structures, Professor Timothy Darvill examines their origins, considers their relationships with similar sites elsewhere in Britain, and shows how they acted as permanent focal points in a changing landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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![The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds. A Description of the Long Barrows, Stone Circles and Other Megalithic Remains in the Area Covered by Sheet 8 of the Quarter-inch Ordnance Survey Comprising the Cotswolds and the Welsh Marches. [With Plates and Maps.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/rjQAnwEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: L.V. Grinsell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317604687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.
Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Frances Lynch
Publisher: Shire Publications
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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This book covers all the great tombs of the first farmers in Britain, both the earthen mounds and the huge stone chambers. The dramatic stone monuments of Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and the Cotswolds and the less awe-inspiring earth and timber megalithic tombs and long barrows of southern and north-eastern England are described and illustrated with plans and photographs. The various regional groups are defined and described in a series of short, well-illustrated sections and the book ends with a list of sites to visit covering monuments of each type in all parts of Britain.
Author: Martin Smith
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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This volume looks at the history of the study of human remains and how new scientific techniques have massively expanded what we know about our Neolithic ancestors.
Author: Don Benson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782979227
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford
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Category : Cotswold Hills Region (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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