REVIEW BY CH
Infrastructure projects often offer exciting archaeological opportunities to explore an area’s past on a large scale. The construction of a windfarm off the Yorkshire coast was one such case: the cables connecting it to the National Grid made landfall in the marshes of northern Lincolnshire, and the 40km trench required to accommodate them allowed Wessex Archaeology to carry out years of excavations along its route (see p.26 of this issue for more on the project).
The full results of this work have now been published in a comprehensive monograph which describes the discoveries in detail, site-by-site and period-by-period, spanning the Neolithic to the present day. Each chapter is accompanied by colour photographs, maps, and plans, and chronological chapters are followed by specialist reports on pottery, other finds, and dating- and environmental evidence, with a concluding discussion.
Just Out and Coming Soon
Northwold Manor Reborn
Warwick Rodwell
Oxbow, £55
ISBN 979-8888571347
