Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park

Oswald, Al; Ainsworth, Stewart; Pearson, Trevor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905624093 ISBN 13: 9781905624096

Publisher: Historic England, 2007

A detailed archaeological landscape survey that, like all the best pieces of detective work, investigates hillforts with the combined precision of the microscope and the ability to stand back and view the bigger picture. The authors have collectively spent many decades exploring these historic sites on foot and this book presents the results of their detailed archaeological landscape surveys.

About the Author:

Al Oswald is a researcher within the Department of Achaeology, University of York.

Stewart Ainsworth is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England.

Trevor Pearson is an author and researcher.

Synopsis:

The volume of mostly color photographs, maps, and artistic reconstructions is one result of a five-year program to research, conserve, and interpret the archaeological landscape of the park in the Cheviot Hills. The point is to explain to visitors how to see and interpret the surviving evidence for the hillforts that dotted the area before the Roma