This study looks at Early Mesolithic Britain, and in particular the assemblage types known as aeStar CarrAE, aeDeepcarAE, and aeHorshamAE, from the point of view of six independent areas of research: typology, technology, chronology, environment, settlement and origins. The discussions highlight what are considered to be the most relevant results of the analyses and offer one or more interpretations of their meaning for the Early Mesolithic.

The Isles of Scilly are located 48km south-west of Lands End (Cornwall) England, and comprise a small archipelago of granite islands. The interpretation of the islands' archaeology has received no recent detailed consideration and has therefore not been studied within a contemporary archaeological framework. This research seeks to redress this by considering the prehistory of Scilly from the earliest evidence for a human presence on the islands until the end of the 1st century BC (Mesolithic until Iron Age). It will draw upon recent approaches to the study of landscapes, seascapes and islands...

This volume presents the methodology and results for the excavations at Cairnderry and Bargrennan, south-west Scotland. A comparative chapter compares the excavation results from both sites, and presents interpretations of these results, particularly in terms of the architecture and the early Bronze Age mortuary practices. Chapter 5 considers the architecture of Cairnderry and Bargrennan in terms of wider trends in the construction of chambered cairns throughout the British Isles and throughout the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Chapter 6 places the early Bronze Age activity at Cairnderry and...

In 1879 Edward Pollock opened a pipe works in Manchester that survived for 111 years. This book provides a full exploration not only of one particular family business but also of the clay pipemaking industry in general. The study is based on a wealth of primary evidence including an invaluable paper archive, containing letters, advertising material, employee records and the most detailed description of the pipemaking process, as well as original machinery and moulds. The history is supported throughout by drawings of pipes and stamps as well as original archive photographs. Includes a...

22 papers from the conference aeGoing over Old Ground: Perspectives on Archaeological, Geophysical and Geochemical Survey in ScotlandAE, held at the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, August 2003. Contents: (1) The Scottish Archaeological Geophysics Database - some preliminary findings (Christine Rennie); (2) Recent geophysical surveys at Roman forts in Central Scotland (Richard Jones, Alan Leslie and Paul Johnson, with Geoff Bailey); (3) Magnetic Stones - an investigation of the recumbent stone circle at Rothiemay, Banffshire (Arnold Aspinall); (4) Geophysical...