Recent Archaeological Research on the Isle of Man (BAR British)

Davey, P. J.

ISBN 10: 0860549461 / ISBN 13: 9780860549468

Published by British Archaeological Reports, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recent Archaeological Research on the Isle of Man (BAR British)
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860549461
• ISBN 13: 9780860549468
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Includes the papers delivered at a seminar held in the Manx Museum, 1998. Contents: Introduction (P J Davey) ; The Manx Early Mesolithic: a story in stone (S B McCartan) ; Billown Neolithic Landscape Project 1995-1997 (T Darvill) ; Neither east nor west: a social history of the Manx Neolithic (S Burrow) ; Bronze Age metallurgy on the Isle of Man: a symposium (P J Davey, P Northover, B O'Connor & J J Woodcock) ; Quartz mounds: a preliminary assessment (M B Pitts) ; Field walker's records on burnt mounds on the Isle of Man (L S Garrad) ; Trial excavations in the Central Valley of the Isle of Man, December 1991 (D A Higgins) ; A report on the excavation carried out by B R S Megaw at Staarvey Farm, Kirk German (J J Woodcock) ; The Bronze Age Burials from Cottier's Field, Bishopscourt Farm, Ballaugh (J J Woodcock) ; The excavation of a Bronze Age pit and the examination of a pit-like feature in the Crawyn Brooghs, Ballaugh, Isle of Man (J J Woodcock & P J Davey) ; The Ronaldsway Village Pottery (J J Woodcock) ; Survey and trial excavations at the 'Ronaldsway Village' site, Ronaldsway Airport, ISle of Man (D A Higgins) ; Sculby (A Johnson) ; The Origins of the Manx land system debate (R Moore) ; Messages on a monument: recently recovered iconography on a Late Manx fragment from Bishopscourt (R Trench-Jellico) ; Myth or Mint? The evidence for a Viking-age coinage in the Isle of Man (K A Bornholdt) ; Manx granite-tempered ware (R Barton) ; Medieval and post-medieval continental imports on the Isle of Man (P J Davey) ; The original site of Rushen Abbey and its significance (B R S Megaw) ; Notes on a collection of post-medieval pottery and glass from 9 Malew Street, Castletown (P J Davey) ; Three quarterland farms in the parish of Santon: change and continuity in field boundaries (N C Johnson) ; A nineteenth-century export ceramic assemblage from Poyll Vaaish (P J Davey) ; A mid-nineteenth-century clay tobacco pipe works in Drumgold Street, Douglas, ISle of Man (D A Higgins) ; Aerial photography of the Isle of Man (R Brewley) ; Radiocarbon dates for the Isle of Man (R C Chiverrell, P J Davey, J A J Gowlett & J J Woodcock) ; Recent archaeological accessions into the Manx Museum

About the Author

P.J. Davey. Foreword by Professor Sir David Wilson. Technical editing by S.D. White.