Our offer of selected free publications has been extremely popular, and they have been rushing off the shelves. However, we do have five titles still available for free (+ £2.50 P&P to UK addresses only).
Excavations in the Burghfield Area, Berkshire: Developments in the Bronze Age and Saxon Landscapes
by C.A. Butterworth and S.J. Lobb
Published 1992: Report 1
Excavations on Reading Waterfront Sites, 1979-1988
by John W. Hawkes and P.J. Fasham
Published 1997: Report 5
Archaeological Survey of the Lower Kennet Valley, Berkshire
by S.J. Lobb and P.G. Rose
Published 1996: Report 9
Excavations in Newbury, Berkshire, 1979-1990
by A.G. Vince, S.J. Lobb, J.C. Richards and Lorraine Mepham
Published 1997: Report 13
Charter Quay: The Spirit of Change
The Archaeology of Kingston’s Riverside
by The Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd.
Published 2003
We have also reduced the price of many other publications, and have several new titles available. Please see our publications section for pricing and availability.
Wessex Archaeology is pleased to offer many of its archaeological publications free (bar P+P) to the general public. This is offer is only available to those based in the UK.
We have reports on our excavations undertaken over the last 20 years in Dorset, Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire, which we would like to offer free to any member of the general public, interested amateur or historic environment professional.
See the reports and research agendas that are available free.
[UPDATE] We have sold out of a number of reports. Please check our publications section for availability.
The reports are offered free subject to postage and packaging at £2.50 per volume up to a maximum of £10 - so you can have the complete set of available volumes for just £10! If you wish to collect direct from our offices, there will be no cost at all to you.
If you wish to place an order for these free books, please write to:
Wessex Archaeology
Portway House
Old Sarum Park
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP4 6EB
Please enclose remittance (by cheque or postal order) with your order and include your name and delivery address (and email in case of difficulty). Cheques should be payable to Wessex Archaeology Ltd.
If you want further information about this offer or the publications that are being offered free, please email us at info@wessexarch.co.uk
A new publication, funded by Southampton Football Club, redraws the map of Hamwic - the Saxon settlement beneath part of Southampton. The investigations reveal a rather dirty, polluted and unhealthy place, pockmarked with rubbish and cess pits, where disease and infection were daily hazards.
Excavations between 1998-2000, the most extensive single investigation yet undertaken within the Saxon settlement, were funded by Southampton Football Club prior to the building of the new Friends Provident St Marys Stadium.
They show that the Saxon town extended further north than had previously been thought. Much of the pottery that was found had been imported, showing that foreign trade was clearly already important to Saxon Hamwic.
As well as an early Saxon cemetery, traces of a street and of wattle and daub buildings were found, including the possible site of a blacksmith’s workshop.
Intriguing finds include a small skein of gold thread, and Romano-British jewellery that was already 300 years old when it was buried.
Purchase your copy for £15.
