Chloë Duckworth

The Great British Dig (eBook, ePUB)

History in Your Back Garden

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Great British Dig brings history and archaeology closer to home than ever before.

Each week a team of archaeologists (led by presenter Hugh Dennis) descend on streets and gardens the length and breadth of the country to discover the treasures we have been living right on top of without realising. In this official tie-in book, on-screen expert Dr Chloë Duckworth digs deeper into the sites the show visited, as well as giving practical tips and advice for anyone who wants to have a go themselves.

Uncovering a lost world of human stories just a few shovelfuls beneath our feet, Chloë explores the team's techniques in fascinating detail, offering new insights and explanations about the discoveries made. As well as revealing the actual frontier of the Roman Empire in Britain, the Tudor palace of an Elizabethan spymaster, a revolutionary Victorian prison, a Second World War military base, and a prehistoric village under a school playing field, Chloë includes lots of information for anyone wanting to give it a go themselves.

The book is packed with features, tip boxes and practical advice about digging in your own back garden, researching your local area for clues about what might have been there centuries ago, and dating things you may find. Highly illustrated, the book includes images never seen on screen, as well as archive photos and illustrations that bring history to life, and identification guides to bones, pottery, tools, coins and other things you might come across yourself.

Foreword by Hugh Dennis, presenter of The Great British Dig.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781844866250
• Artikelnr.: 63409229

Autorenporträt

Dr Chloë Duckworth is one of the expert co-presenters on The Great British Dig. She is a lecturer in Archaeology at Newcastle University, and posts popular archaeology-related videos on YouTube and TikTok as ArchaeoDuck. In 2017 she was part of the BBC Expert Women project and in 2019 she was a presenter at the New Scientist Live Show

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Hugh Dennis Introduction DIG 1: Cosmopolitan Romans (Benwell,
Newcastle Upon Tyne) Identification guide: Roman and prehistoric ceramics
Practical guide 1: Gathering your tools DIG 2: Medieval Life and Death
(Masham, Yorkshire) Practical guide 2: Researching your local area DIG 3:
Rebellious Monks (Lenton, Nottingham) DIG 4: War and Peace (Trow Point,
South Shields) Identification guide: Coins Practical guide 3: Digging
legally and safely DIG 5: From Mill to POW Camp (Oldham, Greater
Manchester) Identification guide: Porcelain and its imitations DIG 6: The
Final Frontier (Falkirk, Stirlingshire) Identification guide: Glass bottles
Practical guide 4: Laying out your trench DIG 7: The Conquerors' Castle
(West Derby, Liverpool) Identification guide: Medieval ceramics Practical
guide 5: All about soil DIG 8: Gardens of Power (Beningbrough, York)
Identification guide: Metal small finds Practical guide 6: Excavating finds
and features DIG 9: Poverty and Redemption (Oswestry, Shropshire)
Identification guide: Clay pipes DIG 10: Out on the Grange (Biggin Hall,
Coventry) DIG 11: Crime and Punishment (Devizes, Wiltshire) Practical guide
7: Recording your findings DIG 12: Royalists and Parliamentarians (King's
Lynn, Norfolk) Identification guide: Animal bones DIG 13: The Spymaster's
House (Odiham, Hampshire) Practical guide 8: Caring for finds DIG 14:
Prehistoric Mysteries (Stretton, East Staffordshire) Practical guide 9:
Carry on digging!