{"product_id":"avebury-landscape-book-graham-brown-9781842171523","title":"The Avebury Landscape","description":"It is over one hundred years since the publication of the wide  ranging archaeological field investigation undertaken on the  Marlborough Downs by the Rev A C Smith. His work Guide to the  British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a  Hundred Square Miles round Abury was originally published in  two volumes in 1884 by the Marlborough College Natural History  Society, then reprinted and bound into a single volume and  published in 1885 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society after half the original print run was destroyed  in a fire. As in most works of inventory the volume has certainly  stood the test of time and is still one of the basic reference  texts for students of the area.  Since then, apart from a few  notable exceptions, archaeological literature about the area has  been largely site-based and there has been little concerning the  Marlborough Downs as a whole. In order to try and redress this  imbalance, a day conference was organised in April 2002 at the  University of Bath, Swindon, where it was possible to acknowledge  and mark the ongoing validity of Smith's work and where a number  of papers on various aspects of recent research on the Marlborough Downs were presented. The results of the conference  are presented in this volume, together with a number of other  commissioned contributions from individuals who have undertaken  research in the area during the last decade or so. Each essay  stands alone, but they are connected by a common theme, that of  the land and how it has changed over millennia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53211216773393,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53211217002769,"sku":"GOR003695671","price":26.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781842171523.jpg?v=1772731083","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/avebury-landscape-book-graham-brown-9781842171523","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}