Digging up Britain: Ten discoveries, a million years of history

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What is slowly coming into focus, through analysis of these ten sites and many others, is a completely different picture. Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, as an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas: the Romans, Vikings and Normans. Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake.

We'll share all of the questions and find *some* of the answers, as we join the teams in the field, Digging for Britain. Most books of this genre work from oldest to most recent, Mike Pitts gives us ten archeological digs from newest to oldest and does so in an easily read and entertaining manner. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. Mike Pitts leads us on a journey through time from the more recent and familiar to the most remote and bizarre, just as archaeologists delving into the earth find themselves moving backwards through the years until they reach the very oldest remnants of the past. Pitts is a great communicator and deals effectively with some complex excavations, technical information, and wider implications.

It's a past so increasingly strange as time is peeled back that there is no practical way to make the modern comparison. An award-winning archaeologist and journalist chronicles England’s history―as told through the country’s recent archaeological discoveries.

With 79 illustrations, 24 in colour An up-to-the-minute account of ten of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in Britain over the past decade. Digging up Britain 2023, the UK’s safe digging industry report, is back for its sixth edition, documenting the latest trends, hot topics and data from all the groundwork taking place across the UK last year. There were other bias as well that caused misinterpretation such as a military person identifying a site as having a military history and in reality it did not and the other is those only interested in the status sites and ignoring any evidence of the full value of how people in all walks interacted and lived out their lives. We move from rural Staffordshire and Norfolk to the centre of London, looking at layers of Roman history as we work back – and again, here, new planning legislation allows for the appropriate time for archaeologists to check what’s under new buildings, even if it was thought that we knew everything already. Digging Up Britain consists of a series of ten archaeological case studies from sites shedding light on the earliest (known) occupation of these islands to the times of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking.A great sampling of the current usual suspects in archaeology as well as updates on old archaeological friends: Must Farm, Star Carr, Red Lady of Paviland, etc.

Judging from the place in the credits might be Nick Gillam-Smith for this episode, mistitled as Series Producer only.Lots of descriptions of what things look like, or how they are situated in relation to each other, etc. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. We’re soon in the Bronze Age, finding that every house has its set of bronze household implements, then there’s fascinating DNA evidence of population changes during the Neolithic, with Stonehenge being built by “immigrants” and being a place of spiritual importance for hundreds and hundreds of years. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Dr Alice Roberts visits archaeological excavations around the UK, linking together the results of digs and investigations the length and breadth of the country to build up a picture of the y.

While this accessible book will reward readers of all ages and experience it should be on the reading lists of student archaeologists and historians everywhere. It was fascinating to me to find out about new arrangements and legislation, too: for example, there’s a Portable Antiquities Scheme nowadays which works with detectorists to understand and record their discoveries in a national database, which has had a huge impact on the amount of data held in England and Wales on small and large finds which would have otherwise been missed by the authorities. Some are major digs, conducted by large teams over years, and others are chance finds, leading to revelations out of proportion to the scale of the original project. Dr Alice Roberts visits archaeological excavations around the UK, linking together the results of digs and investigations the length and breadth of the country to build up a picture of the year in British archaeology. Pitts pays tribute to the “meticulous and wise” Roger Jacobi here who put together scattered finds from a site that had been excavated and carved out for well over a hundred years.

His compelling, sometimes teasing, archaeological odyssey illustrates the diversity, complexity and sheer strangeness of the lives that represent Britain’s past. The same format as in series 3 was adopted for series 4 and 5, which first aired in March and December 2016, respectively.