ABSTRACT
This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.C. and is mainly concerned with the author’s field work in western Britain. It deals with burial ritual – dances, processions, "houses of the dead", the objects deposited, the building of the barrow; and it shows by line drawings and photographs how scientific excavation nowadays is planned and executed.
The book gathers together an immense amount of research completed over a long span of years on burials and the ceremonial which attended them. Originally published in 1959.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
chapter 1|11 pages
A Barrow in North Wales
Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition, c. 1700 B.C., and Secondaries
chapter 2|26 pages
(a) Field Archaeology in West Wales, 1925–6
chapter 4|19 pages
The ‘Food-Vessel' Phase of Culture in Britain
chapter 5|38 pages
Composite (Earth and Stone) Barrows in Glamorgan
Early and Middle Bronze Age (c. 1350–900 B.C.)