The North Pennines from Prehistory to Present

REVIEW BY MARK BRENNAND The North Pennines is a bleak old place. I absolutely mean no offence, but its barren, windswept moors, studded with disused mines, are not an easy place to make a living. And yet there is rich archaeological evidence that people in the past did exactly this. While the area is perhaps not aswell-known as some other upland landscapes in the north, a series of pioneers, projects, and a community archaeology group (Altogether Archaeology) have taken great strides in exploring and researching it, all of which is deftly compressed into this volume by its three authors. The result is an informed and illuminating tour through time and landscape, which offers so much more