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Soft back, 64 pages, Illustrated B&W, 15cm x 21cm
Loads of clues to lead you to 17th century relics. Plenty of re-enactors of this period will be interested in your finds - either to buy or just to look.
Contents:
On the back cover:
The English civil war provides the only evidence on the ground in Britain of a military campaign fought since the invention of gunpowder. Previous studies have mostly failed to address the surviving field monuments or the material culture and archaeological context of the war. However, an increasing body of evidence of the conflict is showing up in the archaeological record, particularly at urban sites, notably Chester, Exeter, Gloucester and Newark, and further evidence, such as mutilated carvings, demolished and battered fortifications and bullet holes, can be seen at many castles, churches and cathedrals. This book first briefly discusses the form of warfare in the mid seventeenth century and the kind of physical remains and artefacts that would be expected to have survived. It goes on to deal in detail with town defences, castles and manor houses, siegeworks and forts, island defences, reused sites and battlefields. There is a selective list of sites to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man.
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