Westward on the high-hilled plains : the later prehistory of the West Midlands /

"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to promine...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Series:The making of the West Midlands ; vol. 2
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction: Westward on the high-hilled plains / Niall Sharples
  • Cows, beans and the view : landscape and farming of the West Midlands in later prehistory / Elizabeth Pearson
  • "The Bronze Age has lagged behind" : late Bronze Age settlement and landscape in the West Midlands / Hal Dalwood
  • Burnt mounds and beyond : the later prehistory of Birmingham and the Black Country / Mike Hodder
  • Any more old Iron Age? : an archaeological resource assessment for the middle Bronze Age to Iron Age in Warwickshire and Solihull / Stuart C. Palmer
  • Herefordshire : from the middle Bronze Age to the later Iron Age / Peter Dorling, Keith Ray, and Paul White
  • Fugitive pieces : towards a new understanding of the later second and first millennia BC in Shropshire / Andy Wigley
  • The late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Staffordshire : the torc of the Midlands? / Chris Wardle
  • Middle Bronze Age to late Iron Age Worcestershire / Derek Hurst
  • An overview of the ceramic basis within the broader West Midlands region / Annette Hancocks
  • The potential of the portable antiquities scheme and treasure finds for understanding the Iron Age in the West Midlands / Angie Bolton
  • Later prehistoric production and trade in the West Midlands / Derek Hurst
  • Touching the void : Iron Age landscapes and settlement in the West Midlands / Andy Wigley.