Two great books

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FourWinds F
FourWinds Feb 1, 2008 07:12:06

I've recently finished reading two very good books. The first is Inscribed Across The Landscape by Roy Loveday, which covers cursuses and long enclosures etc. The second is Earthern Long Barrows by David Field.

Both are rather academic, but quite accessible and crammed full of information. Both hold a lot of surprises* and interesting stuff and are well worth reading.

*Especially if you know as little about cursuses & long barrows as I did before reading this!

M moss
moss Feb 1, 2008 09:04:05
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Also reading the David Field one Earthen Longbarrows, which is very good, notice from the excellent aerial photographs that the Old Ditch longbarrow (longest in Wessex at 120 m) has not been photographed on here - is it on Salisbury Plain i wonder?, and there's a lovely reconstruction painting by Mike Codd of Nutbane longbarrow...

From an aerial perspective, EKLB is totally different from WKLB, but similar to the Beckhampton one...

T The Eternal
The Eternal Feb 2, 2008 23:23:35
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Cheers 4-W,
I look forward to reading them.
Oxbow books have quite a number of good offers on books on prehistory at the moment, as well as a load of quite interesting, yet expensive, ones.
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/home.cfm/Location/Oxbow
Regards,
TE.

T The Eternal
The Eternal Mar 6, 2008 21:49:30
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds,
I've now got me clammy little hands on the tome below:-
Earthern Long Barrows by David Field.
£17.99 ordered from Waterstones. You can get it cheaper on Amazon, but I had book tokens to spend. Flicking through, it looks great.
I'll post a review for anyone who cares in due course.
Once I've read that I'll get t'other one you mention.
Thanks for the tip.
Regards,
TE.

V Vybik Jon
Vybik Jon Mar 7, 2008 14:11:46
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I thought this was going to be an outrageous bit of self-publicity!