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  | | The Sutton Hoo Story(1st Edition) Encounters with Early England by Martin Carver Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-204-4, ISBN: 1-78327-204-X "The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made in Europe. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements of archaeological mystery: seventeen mounds, buried treasure, and sacrificed horses. In this very accessible book, Martin Carver explains what we know of this site, at which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signalled the pagan and maritime nature of their court. This is the sto ..." |
 | | Formative Britain(1st Edition) An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD (Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe) by Martin Carver Paperback, 766 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-52475-9, ISBN: 0-415-52475-X "Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian and Cornish Britons, Northumbrians, Angles and Saxons, who expressed their views of this world and the next in a thousand sites and monum ..." |
 | | Portmahomack(Reprint) Monastery of the Picts by Martin Carver Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9767-0, ISBN: 0-7486-9767-5 "This book deals with a key archaeology of one of the prime Pictish settlements in north east Scotland. This updated 2nd edition continues and develops the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site in north east Scotland, with new chapters exploring Iron Age, Medieval and European contexts of the settlement. Before 1996, no one assumed Portmahomack held a key to the understanding of the mysterious Pictish world. On discovery of a ..." |
 | | Making Archaeology Happen(1st Edition) Design versus Dogma by Martin Carver Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-61132-025-1, ISBN: 1-61132-025-9 "`Archaeology is for peopleâ is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs special methods and creative freedom, not repetitive responses. Carver argues that commercial procedures and academic theory are both suffo ..." |
 | | Sutton Hoo(Updated) Burial Ground of Kings? by Martin Carver Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 2000 by British Museum Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7141-0599-4, ISBN: 0-7141-0599-6 "Sutton Hoo An account of the discoveries at Sutton Hoo, including the most recent excavations, and the light they shed on the world of the Anglo-Saxons. Carver draws on the range of research undertaken at the site to present a story of search and discovery alongside the story of the site itself and the information that the finds have revealed. Full description" |
 | | Surviving in Symbols(Illustrated) A Visit to the Pictish Nation (Making of Scotland) (Making of Scotland S.) by Martin Carver Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1999 by Birlinn Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-86241-876-2, ISBN: 0-86241-876-3 "This study of the Picts aims to clarify the debate over their provenance, influence and eventual disappearance as they were subsumed into the greater Scottish ethnic mix with the arrival of the Vikings. It forms part of "The Making of Scotland" series." |
 | | Sutton Hoo(1st Edition) by Martin Carver Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1998 by British Museum Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7141-0591-8, ISBN: 0-7141-0591-0 |
 | | Underneath English Towns Interpreting Urban Archaeology by Martin Carver Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1987 by B T Batsford Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7134-3638-9, ISBN: 0-7134-3638-7 |
 | | In Search of Cult Archaeological Investigations in honour of Philip Rahtz by Martin Carver, Philip A. Rahtz Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85115-337-7, ISBN: 0-85115-337-2 "Philip Rahtz's years of tenure at York were marked by substantialdevelopments both within the department and in the larger world offield archaeology. He operated with scholarship and practical energyat both ends of his profession, and now colleagues and associatesgather to honour him in a volume of essays devoted to the archaeologicalsearch for cult — a search now undertaken all the more confidentlyas scientific system is increasingly e ..." |
 | | Surviving in Symbols(2nd Edition) A Visit to the Pictish Nation by Martin Carver Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2005 by Birlinn Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84158-381-5, ISBN: 1-84158-381-2 "The Picts were an artistically brilliant people and a nation of great warriors who occupied the eastern part of north Britain around AD 300-900. They were exposed to Christian missions from the sixth century onwards and by the eighth century they were the dominant force in Scotland, ruling from Orkney to the Forth until the arrival of the Vikings and the disappearance of the Picts into a new kingdom of Scots. Yet their symbol stones are ..." |
 | | Sutton Hoo(1st Edition) Burial Ground of Kings by Martin Carver Hardcover, 195 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3455-8, ISBN: 0-8122-3455-3 "The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in Europe. In the first account of the entire story to date, Martin Carver tells the story not only of one of the most dramatic historic places in early England but of the fifty years of its exploration -- a history of British archaeology." |
 | | Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe Ser. Formative Britain : An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD by Martin Carver 736 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-429-82976-5, ISBN: 0-429-82976-0 "An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD Martin Carver ... These were aimed at two pre-existing prehistoric or Roman barrows (SG8, SG12), a new barrow (SG 9) was created to cover a culturally Anglo-Saxon burial (Inh. 70). ... were now towards the Upper Thames and the Wessex area.42 By the final period, Period 6 (the late 6th/early 7th century), ... All the burials in this area (SG3 ), with the single exception of a S- ..." |
 | | The Pictish Monastery at Portmahomack by Martin Carver Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-909517-18-9, ISBN: 1-909517-18-6 |
 | | Sutton Hoo by Martin Carver Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published by British Museum Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7141-0593-2, ISBN: 0-7141-0593-7 |
 | | Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness 2016 Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland, Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD by Martin Carver, Justin Garner-Lahire, Cecily Spall Hardcover, 552 Pages, Published 2016 by Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland ISBN-13: 978-1-908332-09-7, ISBN: 1-908332-09-3 |
 | | Portmahomack Monastery of the Picts by Martin Carver 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9997-1, ISBN: 0-7486-9997-X "Foster, Sally (2014), Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland (Edinburgh: Birlinn). Foster, Sally M., and Morag Cross (2005) (eds), Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century (Leeds: Society ..." |
 | | Excavations at the Minster Library, York 1997 (BAR British Series) by Justin Garner-Lahire, Craig Barclay, Martin Carver, Brenda Dickinson, Kate Giles, Deborah Jaques Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2016 by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4073-1457-0, ISBN: 1-4073-1457-2 "Reports of the open area excavation at the York Minster Library conducted in 1997 and associated research are presented in this book. The excavation was complemented by geophysical survey and detailed documentary research in advance of an extension to the Minster Library, a converted medieval archbishop's chapel. The research unearthed archaeological strata up to two metres deep which have been attributed to eight distinct periods of ac ..." |
 | | Archaeological Investigation by Martin Carver 480 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-61682-2, ISBN: 1-136-61682-9 "Martin Carver. FIGURE 7.9 Excavations at Eketorp, Sweden: (a) location; (b) the excavated ring work; (c) excavators at work; (d) scheme of stratification; and (e) sequence (Borg et al 1976). Before its excavation in 1964–72, the ringfort at Eketorp, Sweden, appeared as a circular stony bank. Trial excavations by Mårten Stenberger in 1931 had already shown that the interior contained Scandinavia, such as Trelleborg, it was surmised ..." |
 | | Archaeological Investigation by Martin Carver 480 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-61683-9, ISBN: 1-136-61683-7 "The Poses site by the Seine (a and b), and the exploratory trenches that found the Neolithic longhouses (c and d) (Françoise Bostyn). Borg, Lofoten Islands, Norway: (a) excavation; (b) surface survey and (c) appearance of Horizon 2 (Else Roesdahl). Borg: (a) feature map; (b) phosphate plot; and (c) interpretation (Else Roesdahl). Excavations at Eketorp, Sweden: (a) location; (b) the excavated ring- work; (c) excavators at work; (d) ..." |
 | | Great Excavations(1st Edition) Shaping the Archaeological Profession by John Schofield, C. Stephen Briggs, Martin Carver, Et. Al, Member John Schofield Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxbow Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-409-8, ISBN: 1-84217-409-6 "Great excavations inspire and capture the imagination of both the public and archaeologists alike; sites like Danebury, Sutton Hoo, Maiden Castle, Mucking and York conjure images of great discoveries and leaps in knowledge. But what was it like to participate in these excavations? What is the story of these projects, and what made them great? This is a fascinating and entertaining retrospective documenting some of the seminal Bri ..." |
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