Practical Handbooks

Deciphering the countryside

by Stephen Rippon

The British landscape is remarkably varied in its character. To a considerable extent this results from the different ways that successive generations of human communities have created regionally distinctive patterns of agriculture and industry.

A Handbook

by Jennifer Price and Sally Cottam, with drawings by Yvonne Beadnall

This handbook has been written as an introduction to the practical study of the glass vessels of Roman Britain.

An introductory guide

Handbook of the Defence of Britain Project (Revised edition)

edited by B Lowry

During the First and Second World Wars, Britain’s landscape was transformed by a wide variety of military constructions – pill boxes, anti-tank obstacles, coastal batteries, bombing decoys, radar stations, airfield, and many more.

by J Stopford

Invaluable for anyone working with material from medieval contexts this guide describes a methodology for recording medieval floor tiles, both in situ and in post-excavation analysis.