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"A Chalk-cut Shaft at Belle Tout"

"Ring Ditches at Stoughton"

A Bronze Age barrow cemetery, and associated settlement at Roxton, Bedfordshire

scientific article published in January 1985

A Late Neolithic Site at Rackham

scientific article published in 1975

A Life Less Ordinary: the Ritualization of the Domestic Sphere in Later Prehistoric Europe

scientific article published in April 2003

A NEW STUDY OF THE CURSUS COMPLEX AT DORCHESTER ON THAMES

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in November 1988

A Reinterpretation of the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure

scientific article published in 1986

A field method for investigating the distribution of rock art

scientific article published in July 1993

Access, Style and Imagery: The Audience for Prehistoric Rock Art in Atlantic Spain and Portugal, 4000-2000 BC

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After the Axes? The Rock Art at Copt Howe, North-west England, and the Neolithic Sequence at Great Langdale

scientific article

After ‘Celtic’ fields: the social organisation of Iron Age agriculture

chapter published in 2006

Altering the Earth: the Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe

book published in 1993

An Archaeology of Materials: Substantial Transformation in Early Prehistoric Europe, by Chantal Conneller, 2011. Oxford: Routledge; ISBN 0978-0-415-88130-2 hardback £80 & US$125; ix+158 pp., 21 figs., 1 table

An Iron Age Promontory Fort at Belle Tout

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in 1971

Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: So me Suggestions for Research

Archaeological cross-talk

scientific article published in Nature

Archaeological field survey in northern Scotland: Volume 1, by Mercer R. J., with a contribution by Howell J. M.. 157 pp., 35 figs. University of Edinburgh Occasional Paper No. 4, 1980. Price £5.00. Volume 2, by Mercer R. J., 170 pp. and 49 figs. Un

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Archaeology Evolution and the Public Good: the intellectual development of General Pitt-Rivers

article published in 1983

Archaeology: the loss of nerve

Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers

chapter published in 2014

BRONZE AGE BARROWS ON THE HEATHLANDS OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND: CONSTRUCTION, FORMS AND INTERPRETATIONS

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Book reviews. Gavin Lucas. Critical approaches to fieldwork: contemporary and historical archaeological practice. xiii + 246 pages, 22 figures, 7 tables. 2000. London: Routledge; 0-415-23533-2 & 0-415-23534-0 hardback & paperback £50 & £16.99

Breemie Stanes, Aberdeenshire: A note on a modern stone circle

scientific article published in March 2015

Bridging the Two Cultures – Commercial Archaeology and the Study of Prehistoric Britain

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Characterisation of Deverel-Rimbury Pottery from Cranbourne Chase

scientific article published in December 1978

Colin Burgess: The age of Stonehenge (Archaeology in the Landscape Series.) London: Dent, 1980. 402 pp., 82 figs., 19 pls. £12.00

Continental connections

scientific article published in Nature

Croft Moraig and the Chronology of Stone Circles

scientific article published in 2005

Crossing the border: contrasting styles of rock art in the prehistory of north-west Iberia

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in November 1998

DARKNESS AND LIGHT IN THE DESIGN OF MEGALITHIC TOMBS

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in November 1989

DISPLAY, DISCLOSURE AND CONCEALMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF RAW MATERIALS IN THE CHAMBERED TOMBS OF BOHUSLÄN

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in January 2008

Death and the regeneration of life: a new interpretation of house urns in Northern Europe

scientific article published in June 2002

Death by Water: Boats and Footprints in the Rock Art of Western Sweden

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in November 1997

Deaths and Entrances: A Contextual Analysis of Megalithic Art

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Decorating the Houses of the Dead: Incised and Pecked Motifs in Orkney Chambered Tombs

scientific article published in April 2001

Discovery and Excavation

scientific article published in March 2005

Editorial introduction

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in June 1998

English Heritage Book of Flag Fen Prehistoric Centre. By Francis Pryor. 143 pp., 99 illustrations, 12 colour pls. London: Batsford, 1991. £12.95. - English Heritage Book of Stonehenge. By Julian Richards. 141 pp., 108 illustrations, 13 colour pls.…

scientific article published in 1992

Evidence of pedogenesis from a neolithic site at Rackham, Sussex

scientific article published in September 1975

Excavation and pollen analysis on a bell barrow at ascot, berkshire

scientific article published in June 1975

Excavation at Fengate Peterborough, England: The Third Report. By Francis Pryor. Northamptonshire Archaeological Society Monograph 1/Royal Ontario Museum Monography 6, 1980. 257 pp. + 127 figs + pl. Price £7.50

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Excavations at Bishopstone. By Bell Martin, Sussex Archaeological Collections, volume 115 (1977). No price given

Excavations at Tournerbury, Hayling Island, 1959 and 1971

article published in 1976

Excavations in the Brenig Valley: A Mesolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in North Wales. By Frances Lynch. 300mm. Pp. xii + 234, 14 pp., pls. + 1 microfiche. Cambrian Archaeological Association (Cambrian Archaeological Monographs, 5), 1993. ISBN 0-947

Excavations in the Middle Ward Mont Orgueil, Gorey, Jersey

scientific article published in January 1984

FIELDWALKING WITHOUT FLINTS: WORKED QUARTZ AS A CLUE TO THE CHARACTER OF PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in March 1995

FLINT-WORKING IN THE METAL AGE

scientific article published in July 1984

Fieldwork at Great Langdale, Cumbria, 1985-1987: Preliminary Report

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in September 1988

Found architecture: interpreting a cup-marked outcrop in the southern Highlands of Scotland

scientific article published on 2 January 2019

Frances Lynch and the prehistory of Wales and the West

chapter published in 2012

Françoise Bostyn (ed.). Néolithique ancien en Haute-Normandie: le village de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain de Poses ‘Sur la Mare’ et les sites de la boucle du Vaudreuil (Société Préhistorique Française Travaux 4). 343 pages, 296 b&w & colour fig

Geoffrey Wainwright. The henge monuments. 176 pages, 35 figures, 68 plates. 1989. London: Thames & Hudson: ISBN 0-500-39025 8 hardback £19.95.John Barnatt. Stone circles of Britain. 2 volumes, 555 pages, 68 figures. 1989. Oxford: British Archaeologi

Gårdlösa: An Iron Age Community in its Natural and Social Setting. By Berta Stjernquist. Volume 1 — Interdisciplinary Studies (1981), 136 pp., 45 figs and 33 tables (ISBN 91-40-04781-4), Lund: CWK Gleerup (Acta Regiae Societatis Humaniorum…

scientific article published in 1994

Hallunda. A Study of Pottery from a Late Bronze Age Settlement in Central Sweden. By Hille Jaanusson. 24 × 16·5 cm. Pp. 140 + 58 pls. + 59 figs. Stockholm: Statens Historiska Museum (Studies No. 1), 1981. Price not stated.--- Either ISSN or Journal

Hearing Secret Harmonies Archaeoacoustics, edited by Chris Scarre & Graeme Lawson, 2006. (McDonald Institute Monographs.) Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; ISBN 1-902937-35-X hardback; £25 & US$50; ix+126 pp., 63 ills., 5 ta

Hill Forts of the Iron Age in England and Wales

Hoarding, recycling and the consumption of prehistoric metalwork: Technological change in western Europe

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in October 1988

Houses of Commons, Houses of Lords: Domestic Dwellings and Monumental Architecture in Prehistoric Europe

Human skulls from the River Thames, their dating and significance

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in September 1988

Humans, Animals and the Domestication of Visual Images

scientific article published in October 2001

Ian Morris. Burial and ancient society: the rise of the Greekcity-state. x + 262 pages, 62 figures, 19 tables. 1987. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, New Studies in Archaeology series; ISBN 0-521-32680-X hardback £27.50 & $39.50

Ilkley Archaeology Group. The carved rocks on Rombalds Moor: a gazetteer of the prehistoric rock carvings on Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire. 1986. 127 pages, 25 figures, 69 plates. ISBN 0-86181-008-2 paperback £5.25

Interpretations of Footprints in the Bronze Age Rock Art of South Scandinavia

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Interpreting the axe trade: production and exchange in Neolithic Britain

book published in 1993

Lewis R. Binford, Constructing Frames of Reference. An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 563 pp., index, hbk, ISBN 0 520 22393 4.)

Liddington Castle and the Battle of Badon: Excavations and Research 1976

article by Susan Hirst et al published January 1996 in The Archaeological Journal

Littleferry, Sutherland: an earlier prehistoric coastal site in context

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Long Houses, Long Mounds and Neolithic Enclosures

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in July 1996

Looking for circular structures in post hole distributions: Quantitative analysis of two settlements from bronze age England

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in July 1985

Maritime Havens in Earlier Prehistoric Britain

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in February 2016

Maumbury Rings, Dorchester: The Excavations of 1908–1913

article published in 1976

Meetings Between Strangers in the Nordic Bronze Age: The Evidence of Southern Swedish Rock Art

scientific article published on 6 November 2020

Monumenta Britannica, Parts 1 and 2. By John Aubrey, edited by John Fowles and annotated by Rodney Legg. Sherborne, Dorset Publishing Company, 1980. Price £95.00

Mount Pleasant, Dorset: Excavations 1970–1971. By Wainwright G. J.. 265 pages, 101 figures, 37 plates. Society of Antiquaries of London Research Report 37, 1979. Price £20

NEOLITHIC AXES IN ROMAN BRITAIN: AN EXERCISE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCE CRITICISM

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in March 1986

New Radiocarbon Dates Show Early Neolithic Date of Flint-Mining and Stone Quarrying in Britain

scientific article published on 7 August 2019

Norman Yoffee (ed.):Negotiating the Past in the Past. Identity, Memory and Landscape in Archaeological Research. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 267 pp., 54 figs. ISBN 978‐0‐8165‐2670‐3

Old Kinord, Aberdeenshire

Orientations and origins: a symbolic dimension to the long house in Neolithic Europe

scientific article

PERFORATED STONE AXE-HEADS IN THE BRITISH NEOLITHIC: THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND SIGNIFICANCE

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in November 1990

Philosophy and archaeology

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in March 1984

Pick-Dressing on the Neolithic Monuments of Orkney

scientific article published in September 2000

Position and possession: assemblage variation in the British Neolithic

article published in 1982

Prehistorians and pastoralists in Neolithic and Bronze Age England

scientific article published in October 1972

Prehistoric Settlement in the Peak District during the Third and Second Millennia bc: A Preliminary Analysis in the Light of Recent Fieldwork

scientific article published in 1983

Prehistoric field systems in Britain and north‐west Europe ‐ A review of some recent work

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Reviews of Books

Reviews. Peter Ackroyd. First light. iv + 328 pages. 1989. London: Hamish Hamilton; ISBN 0-241-12498-0 hardback £12.95

Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe

book by Richard Bradley in 2005

Ritual, time and history

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in October 1991

Robin Dennell: European economic prehistory–a new approach. London/New York: Academic Press, 1983. 217 pp., 29 figs. £15.00

Rock Art and the Perception of Landscape

scientific article published in April 1991

Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe

book by Richard Bradley

Rock art and the prehistoric landscape of Galicia: the results of field survey 1992–1994

scientific article published in 1995

Rock art research as landscape archaeology: A pilot study in Galicia, north‐west Spain

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Roman Salt Production in Chichester Harbour: Rescue Excavations at Chidham, West Sussex

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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. 28 × 21·5 cm. Pp. lvi + 157 + frontispiece + 68 pls. + 162 figs. + 47 maps. London: H.M.S.O., 1976. £25·00.--- Either ISSN

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Ruined buildings, ruined stones: Enclosures, tombs and natural places in the Neolithic of south‐west England

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SIEVING FOR SOIL MARKS

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in November 1984

Sailing through Stone: Carved Ships and the Rock Face at Revheim, Southwest Norway

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in January 2002

Sculpture and Archaeology, edited by Bonaventura & Jones, 2011. Farnham and Burlington (VT): Ashgate; ISBN 978-0-7546-5831-3 hardback £55 & US$99.95; xiii + 221 pp., 61 figs

Seeing Things

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in June 2003

Settlement patterns in the Oxford region: excavations at the Abingdon causewayed enclosure and other sites. Edited by Case H. J. and Whittle A. W. R.. 161 pp., 81 figs, 6 pls. Council for British Archaeology Research Report 44, 1982. Price £20.00

South Lodge after Pitt Rivers

Statements in Stone: Monuments and Society in Neolithic Brittany. Mark Patton. Routledge, London, 1993. xiv + 209 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. ’65.00 (cloth)

Status, Wealth and the Chronological Ordering of Cemeteries

scientific article published in 1988

Stock Raising and the Origins of the Hill Fort on the South Downs

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in March 1971

Stonehenge and its Environs: Monuments and Land Use. Royal Commission On Historical Monuments (England). 27·2 × 22 cm. Pp. xxiv + 37 + 16 figs. + 23 pls. + 3 maps. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1979. £3.50

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THE FINDSPOTS OF BRONZE AGE METALWORK IN LOWLAND ENGLAND: A NEW FIELD STUDY

scientific article published on 7 January 2020

THE SITING OF NEOLITHIC STONE QUARRIES?EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT GREAT LANGDALE, CUMBRIA

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in July 1986

The Chichester Dykes - a Dissenting Judgment

article published in 1969

The Date of the Dorset Cursus

scholarly article by Mark Bowden published in January 1983

The Destruction of Wealth in Later Prehistory

The Domestication of Europe: Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies

scientific article published in 1992

The Earlier Prehistoric Settlement of Cranborne Chase-the First Results of Current Fieldwork

scholarly article by John Barrett published in September 1981

The Excavation of a Beaker Settlement at Belle Tout, East Sussex, England

scientific article published in December 1970

The Excavation of an Oval Barrow beside the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure, Oxfordshire

scientific article published in 1992

The Future of Field Archaeology

scientific article published in October 2003

The Life after Death: Archaeologies of Remembrance: Death and Memory in Past Societies, edited by Howard Williams, 2003. New York (NY): Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; ISBN 0-306-47451-4 hardback, £42.00 & US$105, 310 pp., ills

scientific article published in October 2003

The Nationalization of the Masses: Political symbolism and mass movements in Germany from the Napoleonic wars through the third reich

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The New Antiquarians: 50 Years of Archaeological Innovation in Wessex, edited by Rowan Whimster, 2011. (CBA Research Report 166.) York: Council for British Archaeology; ISBN 978-90277-185-4 paperback £20 & US$40; xxii + 234 pp., 123 figs., 3 tables

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The Past in Prehistoric Societies

book published in 2002

The Past in Prehistoric Societies

scientific article

The Placing of Early Bronze Age Metalwork Deposits: New Evidence from Scotland

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The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

book published in 2007

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

book published in 2019

The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe

book by Richard Bradley published in 1998

The Story of Silbury Hilll. By Leary and Field. English Heritage, Swindon, 2010. Pp. xvi + 205, figs 97. Price: £14.99. isbn 1 84802 046 5/978 1 848020 46 7

The agrarian history of England and Wales, Vol. 1.1 Prehistory. Edited by Piggott Stuart, 451 pp., 66 figs and 8 pls. Cambridge University Press, 1981. Price £27.50.Farming practice in British prehistory. Edited by Mercer Roger. 245 pp., 46 figs and

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The creative use of bias in field survey

scientific article published in June 1994

The earth, the sky and the water's edge: changing beliefs in the earlier prehistory of Northern Europe

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in February 2013

The excavation of a Bronze Age cemetery on Knighton Heath, Dorset. By Petersen F. F.. 283 pp., 40 figs, 11 tables and 11 plates. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford 1981. Price £11.00.The Bronze Age cremation cemeteries at Simons Ground, Dorset.

The excavation report as a literary genre: traditional practice in Britain

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in December 2006

The human uses of flint and chert

scientific article published in May 1988

The philosopher and the field archaeologist: Collingwood, Bersu and the excavation of King Arthur's Round Table

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in January 1994

The ship as symbol in the prehistory of Scandinavia and Southeast Asia

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The siting of metalwork hoards in the bronze age of south-east England

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Thirty Years of Roman Britain

Time Signatures: The Temporality of Monuments in Early and Middle Neolithic Britain

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in June 2020

Time regained: the creation of continuity

article published in 1987

Tomnaverie stone circle, Aberdeenshire

scholarly article

Trade and exchange in prehistory: studies in honour of Berta Stjernquist. Edited by Hårdh Birgitta, Larsson Lars, Olausson Deborah and Petré Rolf. Lund: Acta Archaeologica Lundensia series in 8° no. 16, 1988

Trade competition and artefact distribution

scientific article published in February 1971

Tunnel Visions: a Decorated Cave at El Pedroso, Castile, in the Light of Fieldwork

Two Late Bronze Age Settlements on the Kennet Gravels: Excavations at Aldermaston Wharf and Knight's Farm, Burghfield, Berkshire

scientific article published in December 1980

Two Roman Buildings in West Sussex

Vera Collum and the excavation of a ‘Roman’ megalithic tomb

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in March 2000

Wilsford Shaft, Excavations 1960–62. By P. Ashbee, M. Bell & E. Proudfoot. 159 pp., 28 tables, 99 figs. London: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, 1989 (English Heritage Archaeological Report 11). £16.00.

scientific article published in 1991

Working the land: imagining the landscape

scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in May 1997

‘Of Human Remains and Weapons in the Neighbourhood of London’: New AMS14C Dates on Thames ‘River Skulls’ and their European Context

scholarly article by Rick Schulting published in January 2013

‘Where water wells up from the earth’: Excavations at the findspot of the Late Bronze Age hoard from Broadward, Shropshire

article published in 2015

‘Where water wells up from the earth’: Excavations at the findspot of the Late Bronze Age hoard from Broadward, Shropshire – corrigendum

correction published in 2017