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WEST COUNTRY FARMS: HOUSE-AND-ESTATE SURVEYS, 1598-1764
Written by Nat Alcock; Cary Carson.
Stock no. 1828362
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This major innovative study explores the significance of a unique type of document that has hitherto been almost unknown to scholars. House-and-estate surveys - which add details of the village's houses, outhouses, and farm buildings to the standard evidence of an estate survey - survive for South-West England for the period from the end of the 16th to the mid-18th century. Large format. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and colour photos. ISBN: 9781842172995. Previous owner's initials and date in ink to top corner of front endpaper. Else a lovely copy.

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THE DARTMOOR REAVES: INVESTIGATING PREHISTORIC LAND DIVISIONS
Written by Andrew Fleming.
Stock no. 1828215
Published by Windgather Press Ltd.; Oxbow Books. 2nd 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Second Edition, extended with colour illustrations and two new chapters. A classic of archaeological fieldwork and discovery. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps, colour photos. xvi and 223 pages including index. ISBN: 9781905119158. Initials & date in ink to half-title page else a lovely copy.

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LANDSCAPES, DOCUMENTS AND MAPS: VILLAGES IN NORTHERN ENGLAND AND BEYOND AD 900-1250
Written by Brian K. Roberts.
Stock no. 1828150
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book integrates evidence from geography, history, economic history, archaeology, place-name studies, anthropology and church architecture. The underlying subject matter always engages with landscape studies. The objective is to combine these with the descriptive and analytical practices of history, and to draw both together using the cartographic methods of historical geography. Red glazed pictorial boards. B/w maps. ISBN: 9781842172377. Base of spine lightly bumped. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Else a lovely copy.

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SANDWICH: THE 'COMPLETEST MEDIEVAL TOWN IN ENGLAND'
Written by Helen Clarke; Sarah Pearson; Mavis Mate; Keith Parfitt.
Stock no. 1828108
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

A study of the town and port from its origins to 1600. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781842174005. Light bumping & rubbing to corners. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Contents otherwise fine.

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BROOCHES IN LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN BRITAIN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by D.F. Mackreth.
Stock no. 1827716
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition.

Volume 1: text for the study, Volume 2: The plates, Figures etc. This is the result of forty years of study and offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Large format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781842174111. Boards a little scuffed, contents clean, a lovely set!

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEOLITHIC HOUSE SOCIETIES IN ORKNEY
Written by Colin Richards; Richard Jones.
Stock no. 1827534
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition.

Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994-2014). Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos & b/w drawings. 572 pages including index. A hefty volume. ISBN: 9781909686892. A decent copy.

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ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND THE MAYA
Written by Gerardo Aldana Y Villalobos; Edwin L. Barnhart.
Stock no. 1823574
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2014. Fine condition.

This book illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and diagrams and a few colour. ISBN: 9781782976431.

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ST PETER'S, BARTON-UPON-HUMBER, LINCOLNSHIRE: A PARISH CHURCH AND ITS COMMUNITY VOLUME 2
Written by Tony Waldron.
Stock no. 2136657
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. The Human Remains. B/w photos. Some fold-out pages. ISBN: 9781842172834.

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