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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.
The Archaeology of the Hornsea Project One Offshore Windfarm Cable Route Ashley Tuck Wessex Archaeology, £20 print version from The Great British Bookshop, also open-access at www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/ books-publications
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Northwold Manor Reborn
Warwick Rodwell
Oxbow, £55
ISBN 979-8888571347
The Uí Chellaig Lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine
Daniel Patrick Curley
|Four Courts Press, £40
ISBN 978-1801510912
Excavations at Tlachtga, Hill of Ward, Co. Meath, Ireland
Stephen Davis and Caitriona Moore
Oxbow, £35
ISBN 979-8888570449
Stone Circles in Britain
David J Evans
Amberley, £15.99
ISBN 978-1398105928
Must Farm Pile-dwelling Settlement – Volume 1: landscape, architecture, and occupation
Mark Knight et al. (eds)
Casemate, £45
ISBN 978-1913344146; also open-access at https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.106697
Wessex: a landscape history
Hadrian Cook
Archaeopress, £35
ISBN 978-1803275352
Reconstructing the Development of Somerset’s Early Medieval Church
Carole Lomas
Archaeopress, £40
ISBN 978-1803275796
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