thesweetcheat
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Re: Books - County Archaeologies
Sep 28, 2009, 23:42
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Littlestone wrote: (I also picked up Burl's Brittany book and a great big hardback edition of John Aubrey's "Monumenta Britannica" from the early 1980s).
Blimey, that's got to be the understatement of the year Mr t ;-) I'm coming with you next time :-)
Ha ha, it was a bit of a bugger getting that lot home on the train! Those shops are fatal though, I should really be banned from second hand bookshops generally (Rhiannon might like to know that when I was last in Cornwall I picked up a 1st edition of Robert Hunt's "Popular Romances of The West of England" for the princely sum of £8 too).
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Antiquities of West Cornwall
Sep 28, 2009, 23:49
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Hey June,
So pleased you got them and they're up to expectations - can't go far wrong with them in my opinion. It's worth trying to get the fourth (sadly out of print) one The Tinner's Way too.
I'm facing an Ian McNeil Cooke print of Sancreed church on the living room wall as I type this!
:-)
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Kabira
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Re: Books of possible interest
Oct 01, 2009, 09:38
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I've only begun studying but occasionally run across titles to books that I'd love to read, but that haven't appeared in English in the U.S., the supposed standard-bearer of free speech. In fact, some of the books do not seem available in original languages.
Kabira
HR Manager
http://www.recoverybull.com
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CianMcLiam
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Archaeological Survey of County Kerry (South West)
Oct 01, 2009, 21:37
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Hurrah! Just saw this sitting on a shelf today, published 2009, covers Iveragh and the Kerry part of Beara. Quite weighty as you'd imagine!!
If you want this for the rock art entries, you're better off with the Survey of Iveragh from the mid-90's as the vast majority of entries for rock art simply give a reference no. SMR and co-ordinates, with a description line that only consists of something like "see Sheehan etc. 1996".
The photos are very, very nice for the most part and there's even a handful of rock art pics with, wait... side flash! 40 squids in Dubray books.
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cerrig
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Re: Books of possible interest
Oct 02, 2009, 03:36
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i guess not.
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moss
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Wiltshire Heritage Museum book catalogue
Oct 02, 2009, 10:09
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Wiltshire Heritage Museum, or Devizes Museum as I know it has started to catalogue and digitalise all their books on to the Google library, 5000 so far in five months (it just goes on and on). Whilst they are mostly 'no preview' there's some fascinating stuff that has been fully transcribed.
Links to the Google catalogue on the link below.
http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/library/
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Littlestone
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Re: Wiltshire Heritage Museum book catalogue
Oct 02, 2009, 10:46
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moss wrote: Wiltshire Heritage Museum, or Devizes Museum as I know it has started to catalogue and digitalise all their books on to the Google library, 5000 so far in five months (it just goes on and on). Whilst they are mostly 'no preview' there's some fascinating stuff that has been fully transcribed.
Links to the Google catalogue on the link below.
http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/library/
Excellent site Moss! Hours of fascinating browsing there :-)
The fully digitised versions (Full view) are still limited but there are some real gems in the list that presumably will eventually get the treatment. Meanwhile, there are the Limited previews which are pretty good, and Phil Harding's enthusiasm for the library infectious - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qqU8owM4BQ
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Mr Hamhead
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Re: Books of possible interest...Stone Worlds
Oct 02, 2009, 11:08
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Worlds-Reflexivity-Archaeology-Publications/dp/1598742191
Just been given this by a friends as a very late birthday pressie. He picked it up secondhand at a music festival. Have put a short review on the Leskernick site.
Not had much chance to look in to book at depth but some interesting theories in it...and it also brings up again the question of 'what is a natural stone and what is a placed stone'
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 02, 2009, 15:01
Britain's Portable Antiquity Heritage
Oct 02, 2009, 14:00
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Britain's Portable Antiquity Heritage: Artefact Collecting and the Archaeological Record by Paul Barford and Nigel Swift. ISBN-10: 1843834561. More info here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-Portable-Antiquity-Heritage-Archaeological/dp/1843834561
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moss
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Edited Jan 05, 2010, 20:09
Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain: Sermons in Stone by Stan Beckensall
Oct 04, 2009, 10:43
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Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain: Sermons in Stone by Stan Beckensall ...
Is on a pre-order discount at Amazon @ £13.29 ......
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