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Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, first screened 8 April 2007

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Bodmin Moor, An Archaeological Survey (Cornwall Archaeological Unit, The Royal Commission on Historic Monuments and English Heritage, 1994)
Survival of prehistoric and medieval features is extensive on Bodmin Moor. The moor has a wealth of Ancient Monuments, which were surveyed for this 1994 report.

Bodmin Moor's Archaeological Heritage (Cornwall County Council, 2001) £5
A popular booklet introducing the archaeological remains of this nationally important historic landscape.

Bodmin Moor: The human landscape to c1800 by Nicholas Johnson (English Heritage Archaeological Report)
Steady encroachment provided the stimulus for this survey of the archaeological monuments of Bodmin Moor, a previously little-disturbed landscape rich in surviving structural evidence of the many ways in which man settled from the Bronze Age to post-medieval period.
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Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans by Francis Pryor (Perennial, 2004) paperback £9.99
An authoritative and radical rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans, based on remarkable new archaeological finds made over the past 30 years.
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Prehistoric Britain by Timothy Darvill (Routledge, 1987) paperback £22.99
Timothy Darvill examines the development of human societies in Britain from the earliest times down to the Roman Conquest, as revealed by available archaeological evidence. Special attention is given to six themes which are traced through all phases of prehistory: subsistence, technology, ritual, trade, society and population.
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British Prehistoric Pottery by Alex Gibson (Tempus, 2002) paperback £12.59
It can be precisely dated, can tell us about the diet, economy and even ritual acts of prehistoric people, and is often richly decorated. As this study and guide to identification shows, pottery can tell us more about prehistoric society than any other artefact.
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Prehistoric Ritual and Religion edited by Alex Gibson and Derek Simpson (Sutton, 1998) £29.70
By comparing many different monuments in Britain, Ireland and on the continent this book sheds new light on many of the questions about our past. Some new topics are also covered including the use of colour in prehistory.
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