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First discovered by sport divers in the 1970s, the two remarkable seabed finds of prehistoric bronze metalwork described here quickly became a testing ground for the new discipline of underwater archaeology, initially under the leadership of the pioneering maritime archaeologist Keith Muckelroy. A haul of 361 bronzes from Langdon Bay, Kent, represents one of the largest deposits from Bronze Age Europe. Dating to the thirteenth century BC, the ...

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This volume serves as an anchor in the "Runnymede Research" publication series. In reconstructing a substantial history of changing Holocene environment for the local catchment of the middle Thames valley, it provides context for the various phases of cultural activity on the Runnymede Bridge site (Surrey - formerly Berkshire). At the same time it sets out the evidence for the chronology of those phases in terms of stratigraphic position, arch...

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Documentation and description of the history and substance of the hoard, lost for over two centuries since its original 18th century discovery, and found once more in the Queen's collection.

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Report on a major rescue excavation of a Late Bronze Age waterfront site with exceptional preservation of deposits buried under the flood silts of the Thames.

In 2003 the British Museum acquired the recently discovered Ringlemere gold cup, a rare example from the Early Bronze Age. The volume provides definitive publication of the Ringlemere cup and its immediate site context. Dating and fuller social significance are assessed through thorough reappraisal and cataloguing of the fifteen comparable cups in gold, silver, amber and shale from Britain, Brittany, Germany and Switzerland. This leads on to n...