Hidden Treasure: Digging Up Britain's Past

Dr Neil Faulkner

ISBN 10: 0563487909 / ISBN 13: 9780563487906

Published by BBC Books, 2003

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Title: Hidden Treasure: Digging Up Britain's Past

Publisher: BBC Books

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

Hidden treasure is the stuff of dreams. Many of us have walked across country fields or along a beach and imagined that we've found something unusual, ancient and possibly of enormous value. These discoveries are windows into "lost worlds" - treasured things become treasured insights. In "Hidden Treasures" the reader is engaged in the process of discovery as we follow real archaeological finds that provide us with a picture of our mysterious past. From Stone and Bronze Age Britain to Dark Age and Medieval Britain, the artefacts found reveal the way people like us lived in ancient and more recent times. A bronze bucket from the Dark Ages is part of a burial ritual, a signifying belief in a world of ancestral spirits - the Anglo-Saxon Valhalla. Through beautiful archaeological artefacts, such as iron swords, enamelled brooches, coin hoards, we piece together what the ancient site represented (a cemetery or fortress) and this leads us to discover the life of the people who lived there. "Hidden Treasure" contains valuable information on how to go about discovering ancient finds, and what to do with any artefacts you find.

About the Author:

Neil Faulkner is a freelance lecturer in archaeology, ancient history and classical civilization, and issue editor for Current Archaeology and author of numerous articles, many academic papers and two books, The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain and Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome, AD 66-73. He was educated at The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells, King's College, Cambridge and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London where he is now an honorary lecturer

Neil Faulkner is director of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project in Norfolk, where he is excavating an Anglo-Saxon village and cemetery and also of the Copped Hall Archaeology Project near Epping Forest on the edge of London, where he is excavating an Elizabethan mansion. He makes an occassional TV appearances and has directed two Time Team digs.

Miranda Krestovnikoff is presenter if the major new BBC Television series, Hidden Treasure: Digging up Britain's Past. She has a long list of credits for her work in front of the camera and recently completed filming Wreck Detectives, a series about marine archaeology. In addition, she has worked as a researcher for the BBC Natural History Unit on series including The Human Animal and Weird Nature.