Miss Layard Excavates
White, Mark / Plunkett, Steven
Between 1903 and 1905, Miss Nina Frances Layard conducted exemplary excavations of an outstanding Palacolithic site on plateau gravels above Ipswich. Here, Palacolithic humans gathered around the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving behind stone tools and manufacturing waste. Many remarkable pictures emerge from this book: of the excavator, an Edwardian lady of great determination and skill: of the site itself, which might well hav...