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Beneath our feet : everyday discoveries reshaping history / Michael Lewis & Ian Richardson ; forewords Mackenzie Crook, Alice Roberts.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating DA90 .L49 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Michael John, author.
- Richardson, Ian (Treasure registrar), author.
- Crook, Mackenzie, 1971- author of foreword.
- Roberts, Alice, 1973- author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (Great Britain).
- National Museum Wales.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Britain.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Great Britain--Antiquities.
- Great Britain.
- Metal detectors--Great Britain.
- Metal detectors.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thames and Hudson ; in collaboration with the British Museum, 2025.
- Summary:
- Beneath Our Feet explores Britain's rich archaeological heritage and highlights how ordinary people--mudlarks, metal detectorists, and fieldwalkers--are transforming our understanding of the past through remarkable discoveries. Celebrating public involvement and the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, the book shares over fifty stories of treasures that reshape British history and deepen our connection to what lies beneath the ground.
- Contents:
- Stone age
- Bronze age
- Iron age
- Roman
- Early Medieval
- Medieval
- Post-Medieval and modern.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Eden fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780500027523
- 0500027528
- OCLC:
- 1518929739
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