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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Type: Book 1st printing. An unread book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hidden Treasure: Digging Up Britain's Past
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0563487909
• ISBN 13: 9780563487906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History and Politics

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Synopsis

In Hidden Treasures, the reader is engaged in the process of discovery as we follow real archaeological finds that provide a picture of our mysterious past. Through beautiful archaeological artifacts, such as iron swords, enamelled brooches, and coin hoards, we piece together what the ancient site represented, and this leads to clues about the life of the people who lived there.

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.