Deserted Villages - Couverture souple

Rowley, Trevor; Wood, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747804745 ISBN 13 : 9780747804741

Editeur : Shire Publications, 2008

Synopsis

Villages have been abandoned throughout history, and in every part of the British Isles. Some of them are former towns; others were only ever small hamlets. Many still await discovery. This book explains how villages have become deserted - often the result of disease and shrinking populations - and describes how the archaeologist recovers and interprets the evidence and shows how everyone can become involved in discovering and recording sites. Some good examples of sites worth visiting are included.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Trevor Rowley is Deputy Director of the Department for Continuing Education of Oxford University. He is a geographer by training and is an acknowledged national authority on landscape history and village studies. John Wood is Senior Archaeologist for the Highland Council in Scotland. He has extensive experience of the survey and excavation of deserted villages, and since 1995 he has directed an annual field school at the deserted village of Easter Raitts, near Kingussie in Badenoch.

The author of some thirty-five books on the motoring of yesteryear, Jonathan Wood has made a particular study of the histories of Britain's multifarious car makers. He has received the Guild of Motoring Writers' Montagu Trophy and the Society of Automotive Historians' Cugnot Award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Shire Publications
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747804745
• ISBN 13: 9780747804741
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 72