Archaeology in Hertfordshire : recent research : a festschrift for Tony Rook / edited by Kris Lockyear.

"Hertfordshire has a rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research. The Iron Age remains at St Albans, Wheathampstead and Braughing are well-known, as are the Roman town of Verulamium and the villa sites at Lockleys, Dicket Mead and Park Street. The heritage of other periods is le...

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Main Author: Lockyear, Kris (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hatfield, Hertfordshire : Hertfordshire Publications, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / by Kris Lockyear
  • Archaeology in Hertfordshire / by Kris Lockyear
  • The Welwyn Archaeological Society 1960-1998: a personal history / by Merle Rook and Kris Lockyear
  • A nice place to live: settlement and landscape in Hertfordshire from 1500 BC to 300 BC / by Stewart Bryant
  • The Baldock Bowl: an exceptional prehistoric landscape on the edge of the Chilterns / by Keith J. Fitzpatrick-Matthews
  • Burials, ditches and deities: defining the boundaries of Iron Age and Romano-British Baldock / by Gil Burleigh
  • When was the Roman conquest in Hertfordshire? / by Isobel Thompson
  • A survey of Roman coin finds from Hertfordshire by Sam Moorhead
  • Archaeology and the Roman coin hoards of Hertfordshire / by Dave Wythe
  • The Iron Age and Roman site at Broom Hall Farm, Watton-at-Stone: a preliminary report / by Kris Lockyear
  • 'Out of town and on the edge?': evaluating recent evidence for Romanisation within the Verulamium region / by Simon West
  • Prehistoric pits and an Anglo-Saxon hill-top cremation cemetery at Station Road, Watton-at-Stone / by Peter Boyer, Katie Anderson, Tom Woolhouse, Barry Bishop and Berni Sudds, with contributionsfrom Nina Crummy and Dr Jean-Luc Schwenninger
  • Hertfordshire hundreds: names and places / by John Baker
  • The fields of Hertfordshire: archaeological, documentary and topographic investigations / by Tom Williamson
  • Pollards: living archaeology / by Anne Rowe
  • Dig where we stand / by Sarah Dhanjal, Andrew Flinn, Kris Lockyear and Gabriel Moshenska
  • Appendix 1: Roman coin hoards from Hertfordshire / by Sam Moorhead and Dave Wythe
  • Appendix 2: Excavation coins and PAS finds from Hertfordshire / by Sam Moorhead.