VBB
|
Re: Books of possible interest
Mar 05, 2012, 23:45
|
|
Sanctuary wrote:
Read an extract, very readable & great stuff. Martyn is very very good.
|
thesweetcheat
|
Welsh Rock Art
May 21, 2012, 21:26
|
"The Meeting of the Tracks - Rock Art In Ancient Wales" - John Sharkey (2004 Gwasg Carreg Gwalch).
Handy book on Welsh rock art, as far as I can tell not an area well-covered otherwise (even Stan Beckensall generally seems to avoid Wales, except for "biggies" like Bryn Celli ddu).
Includes recent (up to 2004) discoveries by C-PAT.
pp148, b&w illustrations throughout. Barclodiad y Gawres, Bryn Celli Ddu, Ty Illtud, Llywel and Blaenawen have their own chapters, also a good site-list/gazetteer of 45 Welsh rock art sites.
Includes some post-Roman material.
|
juamei
|
Re: Welsh Rock Art
May 22, 2012, 09:51
|
|
I've got this (charity shop buy) and its a good read. Weird name though...
|
Littlestone
|
Edited May 22, 2012, 10:51
Re: Welsh Rock Art
May 22, 2012, 10:48
|
Though the event has now passed, it might be worth keeping an eye open here for future ones -
“From here we headed into the uplands, passing a prehistoric standing stone; one of many in the area. Royal Commission investigator, Toby Driver, explained that there are a number of different interpretations of these features. Some believe that they may be indications of prehistoric burial sites or places of ritual importance, whereas others hold the opinion that they would have acted predominantly as landscape markers used to navigate through the landscape.”
|
thesweetcheat
|
Re: Welsh Rock Art
May 22, 2012, 13:00
|
I found it in a 2nd hand shop in Hay the other week (£3.00).
I think the name relates to an inscribed stone in North Wales, somewhere above Penmaenmawr/Llanfairfechen, the Welsh name of which translates as "The Meeting of the Tracks".
|
juamei
|
Re: Welsh Rock Art
May 23, 2012, 08:10
|
|
Ah thanks, makes more sense now! I got mine from Oxfam and apparently paid a fiver for it, seems quite high...
|
thesweetcheat
|
Re: Welsh Rock Art
May 23, 2012, 19:19
|
|
juamei wrote: Ah thanks, makes more sense now! I got mine from Oxfam and apparently paid a fiver for it, seems quite high...
Sounds okay though. And it's for charidee.
|
moss
|
Edited May 24, 2012, 10:34
Re: Western Brecon Beacons
May 24, 2012, 10:33
|
Looks interesting and not too expensive.
The Western Brecon Beacons: The Archaeology of Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr by David K. Leighton. ISBN 978-1-871184-43-3, 180pp, £14.95 or £13.50 for Friends
http://heritageofwalesnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/western-brecon-beacons-archaeology-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+HeritageOfWalesNews+(Heritage+of+Wales+News)
|
thesweetcheat
|
Re: Western Brecon Beacons
May 24, 2012, 19:32
|
|
moss wrote:
Ooh, that's a must buy. Thanks for the info Moss.
(David Leighton's name appears next to an awful lot of Coflein's uplands entries)
|
Littlestone
|
Edited May 29, 2012, 19:26
William Gowland:The Father of Japanese Archaeology
May 29, 2012, 19:06
|
William Gowland: The Father of Japanese Archaeology, by Victor Harris and Kazuo Goto.
ISBN-13 9780714124209 and ISBN-10 0714124206. The Wikipedia entry on Gowland is also interesting. See also The Prehistory of Japan by Gerard J. Groot.
|
