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Somerset Archaeology: Papers to mark 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

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Papers presented at a conference to celebrate 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society and 25 years since the appointment of Mick Aston as the first county archaeologist for Somerset.

No longer in print but chapters available below.


CJ Webster (ed). 2000. Somerset Archaeology: Papers to mark 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Taunton: Somerset County Council. ISBN 0 86183 346 5.

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Philip Rahtz: 150 years of Somerset Archaeology - looking backwards and into the next millennium.

Frances Griffith and Bill Horner: Aerial reconnaissance in Somerset.

Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen: Finding our past: the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Somerset and Dorset.

Stuart Prior: The skill of the Neolithic bowyers: reassessing the past through experimental archaeology.

Richard Tabor: Cadbury Castle - focusing the landscape.

Christopher Gerrard: The Shapwick Project 1989-99.

Andrew Currant: The Quaternary mammal collections at the Somerset County Museum, Taunton.

Roger Jacobi: The Late Pleistocene Archaeology of Somerset.

Chris Norman: Early humans in the Vale of Taunton: a new perspective.

Vanessa Straker: A consideration of Somerset's holocene environments.

Richard Brunning: Neolithic and Bronze Age Somerset: a wetland perspective.

Stephen Minnitt: The Iron Age wetlands of central Somerset.

Chris Webster: The Dark Ages.

Stephen Rippon: Clayland colonisation - recent work on Romano-British and medieval reclamation in the Somerset Levels.

Mick Aston: Medieval Rural settlement.

Mick Aston: Monasteries in Somerset.

James Bond: Somerset parks and gardens after the Middle Ages - the archaeology of the formal garden, c.1540-1730.

Brian Murless: Whither (or wither?) Somerset's industrial heritage.

Veryan Heal: The notable 1990s - an important decade for the historic environment of Exmoor.

John Allan: Post-Medieval pottery studies in Somerset.

Bob Croft: Twenty-five years of planning and archaeology in Somerset.

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