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Hillforts : Britain, Ireland and the nearer continent : papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017 by Gary Lock (editor), Ian Ralston (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hillforts : Britain, Ireland and the nearer continent : papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017 about?
Funded by the AHRC, the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) involved a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork which was responsible for compiling a massive database, now freely available online at https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac, on hillforts in Britain and Ireland. This was underpinned by a major desk-based re-assessment of accessible records. These twelve studies, presented at the end of that exercise to a conference in Edinburgh, and contributed by team members and colleagues, outline the background to and development of the project (Gary Lock) and offer a preliminary assessment of the online digital Atlas (John Pouncett) as well as presenting initial research studies using Atlas data. The volume is profusely illustrated with over 140 figures, including many new maps. Ian Ralston provides a historical assessment of key stages in the enumeration and mapping of these important monuments on both sides of the Irish Sea. The hill- and promontory forts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man are assessed by Ian Brown and those of Ireland by James O’Driscoll, Alan Hawkes and William O’Brien. Stratford Halliday’s study of the Scottish evidenc
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- Author
- Gary Lock (editor), Ian Ralston (editor)
- Publisher
- Archaeopress Access Archaeology
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781789692273
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Anthropology
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