The Festival of Archaeology, held annually by the Council for British Archaeology, is an event that invites the public to participate in and learn about archaeological practices and discoveries in the UK.
The History Faculty Library is using this opportunity to highlight our collections focusing on archaeological discoveries in the UK, as well as British archaeological practices abroad. Please feel free to browse the display in the Upper Gladstone Link at the Radcliffe Camera, as well as the e-book display listed further below. Explore the realities of commercial archaeology in the UK with Paul Everill’s book here or read about the discovery of roundhouses built on slits over a river that collapsed in a catastrophic fire around 950 BCE in modern day Cambridgeshire here.
The books present on the physical display are as follows :
In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Philip Rahtz edited by M. Carver | Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology by I. J McNiven | The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 edited by L. Webster and J. Backhouse | The Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland, c.AD 400-1200 by L. Laing | Oxford Before the University: The Saxon and Norman Archaeology of the Thames Crossing, Defences and the Town by A. Dodd | The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure by C. Fern | Archaeology in British Towns: From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death by P. Ottoway | Gold, Gilt, Pots and Pins: Possessions and People in Medieval Britain by D. A. Hinton | An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by C. J. Arnold | The Archaeology of Medieval England and Wales by J. Steane | Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology edited by M. Díaz-Andreu García and M. L. S. Sørenson | A Smith in Lindsey: The Anglo-Saxon Grave and Tattersall Thrope, Lincolnshire by D. A. Hinton | The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland by N. Edwards | Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey by J. Graham-Campbell and C. E. Batey | The Bretons by P. Galliou and J. Michael | Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461 edited by C. Knüsel, V. Fiorato, A. Boylston, A. W. Boardman
Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)
