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This Investigation into the material culture of south-east Wales during the Pre-Roman Iron Age collates artefacts from chance finds, hoards and excavations to challenge the picture of Wales during this period as impoverished and a relatively unsophisticated backwater.

Traditional approaches to studying rock art centred on the production of gazetteers of sites and examples, but in recent years the tide has turned significantly. This study adds to the genre of research that seeks to provide meaningful interpretations of the purpose and significance of rock-art.

The Scottish broch - symbolized by the lonely tower on Mousa island in Shetland - has, since the early years of the 18th century, excited the curiosity of archaeologists, antiquaries, and lay persons alike. The great piles of rubble, or the green mounds covering their massive ruins (dated c.700 BC - AD 500), are everywhere to be seen in the western and northern islands and in the north-eastern counties of Caithness and Sutherland, often in upland places where there are few other signs of dynamic human habitation. Indeed, part of the fascination of the brochs is that these abundant signs of about 1200 years of human dynamic human energy and organization are concentrated in the maritime region of the far north and west of Scotland which, until the discovery of oil focused attention on the importance of the sea again, seemed remote in every sense from the centres of population of the modern UK. Most writers about brochs in the past have tended to rely for their conclusions on a relatively small number of well-known sites. Apart from the from the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland there has never been a systematic attempt to collate all the available data about brochs everywhere, and the finds made in them. This is one of the tasks the author set himself in 1961, soon after arriving in Scotland, and this volume is the first half of the result. This thorough study includes 329 illustrations, plans, photographs and maps, as well as an Index of site names and an Appendix of over 400 Iron Age artefacts drawn by author.

This thesis sets out to re-examine, define, and explore the art-style already occasionally referred to as the Saxon Relief Style. This style developed in certain Germanic areas of the continent out of provincial Roman ornament of the later fourth century AD.

This survey of Kentish vessel glass begins at the end of the late Roman period, and includes Roman glass vessels found in an Anglo-Saxon context. The period covered is approximately from the middle of the fifth century to the end of the seventh, althoughcertain material is included which may run on into the eighth century.The aim of this survey is to form an index/catalogue of early medieval glass vessels found in Kent since 1956 to December 1999 and to add later acquisitions. A further aim is to recordvessels which have been lost since 1956, and where feasible, to disclose the circumstances of loss, and the possibilities of eventual recovery. A final chapter includes new vessels found since completion of this work to 2005.

Twenty-two essays on Roman remains in different areas of Yorkshire-Humber adn environs, the Wolds and the Vale of Pickering, the Vale of York, the Dales and Northeast Yorkshire. Most of the essays discuss settlements or landscape; the contributors include: P. Didsbury, J. S. Dent, M. Millett, P. A> Rahtz, B. R. Hartley, A. Sumpter, R. Inman, V. Rigby and J. Evans.

Nineteen papers covering every aspect of this topic: coinage and history, chronology, styea hoards, styea phases and goups, metal analysis, Royal coins, names on coins, and many other notes. From the 10th Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History.

A discussion of the juxtaposition of early place names and sites of the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries in East Anglia, the Midlands and the North.

This useful study is divided into two parts: the first describes the evidence for areas of extra-mural occupation around Romano-British towns. The second part consists of general discussion of the types of structure found-defences, public works and buildings, private buildings, including those used for manufacture and commerce, and cemeteries.

Spine title: Paleolithic non-flint tools.

Part III: The Brochs of Orkney.

This study of West Saxon charters includes all those that may be dated before 839, the end of the reign of Ecgberht.