Overview
This book provides the first comprehensive series of maps of the hillforts of Britain and Ireland, with accompanying commentaries and broader overviews which interpret the survival and detection of this evidence in its later prehistoric and early historic contexts. The authors expertly assess and analyse the available evidence for over 4,000 hillforts from Shetland to Cornwall to County Clare to a single standard and present their findings in both map and descriptive form. Further detailed information is available to search online via our website.
Full Product Details
Author: Gary Lock ,
Ian B. M. Ralston
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474447126
ISBN 10: 1474447120
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 25 February 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"Well-written and -illustrated, the Atlas is easy for those without detailed archaeological knowledge to understand. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in the topic or the findings of the original project.--Andrew Tibbs ""The Past"" Atlas has high production standards, clear text and Paula Levick's crisp cartography, enhanced by some 155 maps and diagrams, almost all in colour and 75 tables, showing absolute and percentage figures of hillfort attributes on a regional basis [...] by providing accessible meta detail for each hillfort, it facilitates further enquiry, raising questions about the relationships which hillforts have to one another in time and space and to their topography, and for this, Gary Lock, Ian Ralston and the wider team who have worked on this project are to be commended. --James McDougall ""Scottish Archaeological Journal"" A lasting legacy of The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project and just reward for the considerable achievement of the authors in steering the compilation of the online Atlas and the production of this published volume will be the new research and conservation initiatives that hopefully it will continue to inspire. --W.J. Britnell ""Archaeologia Cambrensis"" Painstakingly researched and generously illustrated, this book provides an unparalleled overview of the hillforts of Britain and Ireland. An indispensable resource for all future study of these emblematic monuments. -- ""Colin Haselgrove, Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester"" Well-written and illustrated, the Atlas is easy for those without detailed archaeological knowledge to understand. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in the topic or the findings of the original project.--Andrew Tibbs ""Current Archaeology"""
Author Information
Gary Lock, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Oford. Ian B. M. Ralston, Abercromby Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
