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List of works by Robert Ixer

A Stamford Ware Pottery Kiln in Pontefract: A Geographical Enigma and a Dating Dilemma

A detailed re-examination of the petrography of the Altar Stone and other non-sarsen sandstones from Stonehenge as a guide to their provenance ⬇️

article published in 2006

A re-examination of rhyolitic bluestone 'debitage' from the Heelstone and other areas within the Stonehenge Landscape ⬇️

article published in 2013

Alternative Altar Stones? Carbonate-cemented micaceous sandstones from the Stonehenge Landscape

article published in 2019

And the first shall be last: the Aubrey Holes and their stones

article published in 2021

Bismuth-bearing assemblages from the Northern Pennine Orefield

scientific article published in April 1996

Carn Goedog is the likely major source of Stonehenge doleritic bluestones: evidence based on compatible element geochemistry and Principal Component Analysis

scholarly article by Richard E. Bevins et al published February 2014 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Ceramic studies: examining the full spectrum

Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge ‘Altar Stone’: Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating

scientific article

Craig Rhos-y-Felin, Pont Saeson is the dominant source of the Stonehenge rhyolitic debitage

article published in Archaeology in Wales in 2011

Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in December 2015

Devonshire Marbles: their geology, history and uses (2 vols). By Gordon Walkden. 210mm. Pp 232, 484, many ills (chiefly col). Geologists’ Association Guide 72, London, 2015.isbns 9780900717765; 9780900717819. £12 per vol (pbk)

Excavations at Tan-y-Castell (the first castle of Aberystwyth) – a re-evaluation. Part 1: the pottery ⬇️

article published in 2017

Exploring Avebury: the essential guide. By Steve Marshall. 248mm. Pp 144, 400 col ills. The History Press, Stroud, 2016.isbn 9780750967662. £14.99 (pbk)

Feeding Stonehenge: cuisine and consumption at the Late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls

article

Hard ‘Volcanics with sub-planar texture’ in the Stonehenge Landscape

article published in 2015

Interpreting Silent Artefacts: petrographic approaches to archaeological ceramics. Edited by Patrick Sean Quinn. Pp viii+295, b&w figs, tables, ills. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. ISBN 9781905739295. £24.95 (pbk)

scholarly article by Robert Ixer published in September 2010

Long-distance landscapes: from quarries to monument at Stonehenge ⬇️

chapter published in 2020

Middle Bronze Age pottery from Perdiswell Park and Ride and DERA, Malvern, Worcestershire: new analysis and interpretation

article published in 2010

Mineralization at Le Pulec, Jersey, Channel Islands; No. 1 Lode

scientific article published in March 1982

Petrography of sarsen debitage from the Stonehenge landscape - a broad and perhaps scattered church

article published in 2016

Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval Pembrokeshire (Pembrokeshire County History, vol i). By Timothy Darvill, Heather James, Kenneth Murphy, Geoffrey Wainwright and Elizabeth Walker. 247mm. Pp 552, ills, maps (many col). Pembrokeshire County History

Recently found polished stone axe fragments from the Stonehenge Landscape; expanding the range

article published in 2018

Ritual in Some Early Bronze Age Gravegoods

article

Roman Quarrying and Stone Supply on the Periphery – Southern England: a geological study of first-century funerary monuments and monumental architecture. By Kevin M J Hayward. 295mm. Pp 190, 25 col pls, many figs, maps, cd-rom. BAR Brit Ser 500, Ox

article

Siegenite-bearing assemblages found at the Great Orme Mine, Llandudno, North Wales

scientific article published in December 1996

Silver Mineralization at Sark's Hope Mine, Sark, Channel Islands

scientific article (publication date: 1983)

Stonehenge Dacite Group D: Fact or fiction?

article published in 2022

Stonehenge rhyolitic bluestone sources and the application of zircon chemistry as a new tool for provenancing rhyolitic lithics

scientific article published in March 2011

Strumble - Preseli ancient communities and environment study (SPACES): sixth report 2007-08

article published in Archaeology in Wales in 2008

The Bluestone Enigma. Stonehenge, Preseli and the Ice Age, by Brian John, Greencroft Books, 2008, 160pp, colour, paperback, price £9.95. ISBN 9780905559896. ⬇️

book review published in 2011

The Catholme Ceremonial Complex, Staffordshire, UK

scientific article published on 2010

The Geological Sources and Transport of the Bluestones of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK

scientific article published in 1991

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe: the evidence of development-led fieldwork. By Richard Bradley, Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander Linden and Leo Webley. 240mm. Pp xviv+456, many b&w ills, maps, tables. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016.isbn

The Mineralogy of Bronze Age Copper Ores from the British Isles: Implications for the Composition of Early Metalwork

scientific article published in March 1998

The Petrology of the Wong Tei Tung Stone Tool Manufacturing Site, Sham Chung, Hong Kong Sar, China

article

The Stone of Life: querns, mills and flour production in Europe up to c AD 500. By David Peacock. 244mm. Pp xvi + 220, 100 col and b&w ills. Southampton Monogr Archaeol new ser 1, The Highfield Press, Southampton, 2013.isbn 9780992633608. £45 (hbk)

The Stonehenge Altar Stone was probably not sourced from the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh Basin: Time to broaden our geographic and stratigraphic horizons? ⬇️

scientific article published in October 2023

The detailed petrography of six orthostats from the Bluestone Circle, Stonehenge ⬇️

article published in 2011

The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

scientific article published in February 2021

The petrography, affinity and provenance of lithics from the Cursus Field, Stonehenge ⬇️

article published in 2010

The petrography, geological age and distribution of the Lower Palaeozoic Sandstone debitage from the Stonehenge Landscape

article published in 2017

Treasures in the attic. Testing Cunnington’s assertion that Stone 32c is the ‘type’ sample for Andesite Group A

article published in 2023

U–Pb zircon age constraints for the Ordovician Fishguard Volcanic Group and further evidence for the provenance of the Stonehenge bluestones

scientific article

Volcanic Group A debitage: its description and distribution within the Stonehenge landscape

article published in the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in 2016

‘No provenance is better than wrong provenance.’ Milford Haven and the Stonehenge sandstones

article published in 2020

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