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Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn 1000 bc–ad 1300. By David Phillipson. 216mm. Pp 293, 94 b&w ills. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2012. isbn9781847010414. £40 (hbk).
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- 05 July 2013, pp. 422-423
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Herculaneum. Past and Future. By Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. 310mm. Pp 352, lavishly illustrated with much colour. London: Frances Lincoln Ltd with the Packard Humanities Institute, Los Altos, California, 2011. isbn9780711231429. £40/$60 (hbk).
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- 05 July 2013, pp. 423-424
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Roman Colonies in the First Century of their Foundation. Edited by Rebecca J Sweetman. 295mm. Pp vii+159, some b&w ills, maps and plans. Oxford and Oakville (Conn): Oxbow, 2011. isbn9781842179741. £35 (pbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 424-425
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The Danube Limes Project Archaeological Research between 2008–2011. Edited by Zsolt Visy. 296mm. Pp 248, 160 b&w and col ills, with many maps. University of Pécs, 2011. isbn9789636424473. Price not stated. - The Lower Danube Roman Limes (1st–6th C. AD). Edited by Lyudmil Vagalinski, Nicolay Sharankov and Serbey Torbatov. 245mm. Pp 526, 275 b&w ills. Sofia: National Archaeological Institute with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2012. isbn9789549472165. Price not stated. - The Roman Army in Moesia Inferior. By Florian Matei-Popescu. 295mm. Pp 325. Bucharest: Conphys Publishing House, 2010. isbn9789737501776. Price not stated.
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- 10 July 2013, pp. 426-427
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Hadrian's Wall. A Life. By Richard Hingley. 240mm. Pp xx+394, 109 b&w ills. Oxford University Press, 2012. isbn9780199641413. £75 (hbk). - Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire: the Roman frontier in the 4th and 5th centuries. By Rob Collins. 240mm. Pp xviii+214, 38 figs and maps, 12 tables. Routledge Studies in Archaeology 4, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2012. isbn9780415884112 (hbk); 9780203114551 (e-bk). £69.60 (hbk and e-bk). - The First Souvenirs: enamelled vessels from Hadrian's Wall. Edited by David Breeze, with contributions by Lindsay Allason-Jones, Paul Holder, Fraser Hunter, Ralph Jackson, Ernst Künzl, Noel Maheo and Sally Worrell. 245mm. Pp xiv+120, 69 ills. Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2012. isbn9781873124581. £15 (pbk). £65/$99 (pbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 427-429
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The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Edited by Helena Hamerow, David A Hinton and Sally Crawford. 246mm. Pp 1112, 104 ills. Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 2011. isbn9780199212149. £95 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 429-430
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The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World. Edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R Owen-Crocker. 244mm. Pp 386, 70 figs. Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe, University of Exeter Press, 2011. isbn9780859898430. £60 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 430-431
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Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England. By Helena Hamerow. 252mm. Pp 194, 52 b&w figs and maps. Medieval History and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 2012. isbn9780199203253. £65 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 431-432
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Interpreting the English Village: landscape and community at Shapwick, Somerset. By Mick Aston† and Chris Gerrard. 248mm. Pp 416, 233 ills. Oxford: Windgather Press, 2013. isbn9781905119455. £25 (pbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 432-433
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The Birth of a Borough: an archaeological study of Anglo-Saxon Stafford. By Martin Carver. 287mm. Pp xiv+176, 116 figs, 4 col. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. isbn9780851156231. £60 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 433-434
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London 1100–1600: the archaeology of a capital city. By John Schofield. 246mm. Pp xii+324, 118 b&w ills, 10 col pls. Studies in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe, Sheffield: Equinox, 2011. isbn9781845535513 (hbk); 9781908049728 (pbk). £60 (hbk); £25 (pbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 434-435
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St Paul's Cathedral before Wren. By John Schofield. 280mm. Pp x + 386. Many b&w figs and maps, some col. Swindon: English Heritage, 2011. isbn9781848020566. £100 (hbk). - Saving the Souls of Medieval London: perpetual chantries at St Paul's Cathedral, c 1200–1548. By Marie-Héléne Rousseau. 234mm. Pp 256, 3 b&w ills. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. isbn9781409405818. £65 (hbk). - St Paul's Cathedral: 1400 years at the heart of London. By Ann Saunders. 285mm. Pp 114, many col figs. London and New York: Scala, 2012. isbn9781857598025. £25 (hbk).
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- 05 July 2013, pp. 435-437
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Winchester – A City in the Making: archaeological excavations between 2002 and 2007 on the sites of Northgate House, Staple Gardens and the former Winchester Library, Jewry Street. By Ben M Ford and Stephen Teague, with Edward Biddulph, Alan Hardy and Lisa Brown. 297mm. Pp xxvi+402, 139 b&w and col ills, 58 tables, CD supplement. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 12, Oxford Archaeology, 2011. isbn9780904220429. £25 (hbk). - Trade and Prosperity, War and Poverty: an archaeological and historical investigation into Southampton's French Quarter. By Richard Brown and Alan Hardy. 297mm. Pp xvii+375, 158 b&w and col ills, 17 tables. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 15, Oxford Archaeology, 2011. isbn9780904220674. £25 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 437-438
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Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue. Part 4. Edited by Peter Saunders. 245mm. Pp 352, 34 pls and 83 b&w figs, 1 map. Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, 2012. isbn9780947535261. £25 (pbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 438-439
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Ironwork in Medieval Britain: an archaeological study. By Ian H Goodall. 295mm. Pp xiv + 397, 172 figs (line drawings). Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 31, London: Maney, 2011. isbn9781907975455. £32 (pbk).
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- 05 July 2013, pp. 439-440
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High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: property, power, marriage and identity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. By Philadelphia Ricketts. 250mm. Pp xxii+492, 3 diagrams and 18 tables, no ills. Leiden: Brill. 2010. isbn9789004184718. €147/$190 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 440-441
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The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England. By Nat Alcock and Dan Miles, with contributions by John Chenevix Trench†, Christopher Currie, Chris Dyer, Bob Laxton† and Cliff Litton. 280mm. Pp x+326, many figs, tables and maps, some col, Cd-Rom. Oxford: Oxbow, 2013. isbn9781842175064. £55 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 441-442
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The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade. Holy War and Colonisation. By Aleksander Pluskowski. 240mm. Pp 428, 84 figs. London: Routledge, 2012. isbn9780415691703 (hbk); isbn9780415691710 (pbk). £90 (hbk); £29.99 (pbk).
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- 15 August 2013, pp. 442-444
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Bread and Ale for the Brethren: the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory 1260–1536. By Philip Slavin. 245mm. Pp xvii+220, 18 figs and 45 tables. Studies in Regional and Local History 11, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012. isbn9781907396632. £18.99 (pbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 444-445
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker. Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by Richard Barber. Pp xxvii+155, b&w ills. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012. isbn9781843836919. £50 (hbk).
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- 20 September 2013, pp. 445-446
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