ABSTRACT
The influence of post-structural critique has caused archaeology to acknowledge the textuality of its discourse and has prompted questions concerning how the the discipline 'writes' itself. This chapter not directly addresses problems of written discourse within the discipline, but rather the manner in which prehistory and 'archaeology' have been variously employed in recent novels. The higher public profile of archaeology since the Second World War has determined that the subject, its practice, and practitioners have all frequently appeared in fiction. Raymond Williams' posthumous novel charts the prehistory of the Black Mountains of Wales, the same 'Border Country' in which his previous novels were set.
