Hamsterley, County Durham
First screened 16 March 2008

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Further reading

Britain AD: A quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons by Francis Pryor (Harper Collins, 2004) hardback £14
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans by Francis Pryor (Perennial, 2004) paperback £9.99
Time Team prehistory expert Francis Pryor's books provide an authoritative and radical rethinking of British history through to the 'Dark Ages', based on remarkable new archaeological finds made over the past 30 years.

Celtic Fortifications by Ian Ralston (NPI Media Group, 2006) £18.99
From northern Scotland to southern Iberia the enclosures around hill and promontory forts are the most conspicuous component of the Iron-Age archaeological record. Ian Ralston looks at their construction and reconstruction and at the architecture of banks, walls, ramparts and ditches, gateways and ancillary features. He examines the placing of these fortifications in the landscape and their effectiveness as hill-fort defences in war. He also considers these enclosures as signs and symbols. The work is completed with a selective gazetteer.

The Iron Age and its Hill Forts by Sir Mortimer Wheeler (author), Margaret Jesson and David Hall (editors) (Southampton University Archaeological Society 1971)
Classic text on the subject, first published in Sir Mortimer Wheeler's 80th year.

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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