The Shell Guide to British Archaeology

by Jacquetta Hawkes

Britain's archaeological heritage is one of the richest in the world. Yet apart from a few famous monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury, the sites of our prehistoric and Roman past remain hidden in the unfrequented byways of the countryside. "The Shell Guide to British Archaeology" is a detailed guide to over six hundred of the most important archaeological monuments of England, Scotland and Wales. Jacquetta Hawkes, one of the country's leading archaeologists, introduces the book with a wide-ranging and informative description of the evidence left by our forebears, and the archaeologists who pieced it together. Then follows the gazetteer of the six hundred main sites, each dated and described and introduced with map reference and directions for the traveller. There are plans of thirty of the most complex monuments, over 150 photographs (fifty in full colour), maps of each part of the country with the sites marked, and a list of the best archaeological museums.

Genres: Archaeology

320 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 1986

About the author

Jacquetta Hawkes OBE FBA (5 August 1910 – 18 March 1996) was an English archaeologist and writer. She was the first woman to study the Archaeology & Anthropology degree course at the University of Cambridge. A specialist in prehistoric archaeology, she excavated Neanderthal remains at the Palaeolithic site of Mount Carmel with Yusra and Dorothy Garrod. She was a representative for the UK at UNESCO, and was curator of the "People of Britain" pavilion at the Festival of Britain.

Her second husband was J.B. Priestley.