Francis Pryor
Born
in The United Kingdom
January 13, 1945
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Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans
5 editions
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2003
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Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons
6 editions
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2005
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans
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The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths
7 editions
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2019
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Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
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2014
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Seahenge: a quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain
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2001
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The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Pryor, Francis (2010) Hardcover
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2010
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Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landscape
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2016
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Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History
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2006
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The Lifers' Club
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2014
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“And if any landscape can provide darkness, with a very real hint of menace, it is most surely the Fens.”
― The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths
― The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths
“the rich smells would soon get them digging with their front feet and the well-defined hearths seen in the excavation trenches would rapidly be disturbed beyond recognition.”
― Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
― Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
“I love it when archaeological finds speak to us so directly. When our metalwork specialists examined a couple of the broken swords they noticed that they had broken across casting flaws. This was hardly surprising, because cast bronze swords require deep, narrow moulds where air blocks can readily happen. We also know that many recent societies that employed similar metalworking techniques often treated the day when castings were to be made with special respect. Sometimes the clay moulds and furnaces were fashioned to resemble the bodies of pregnant women. Often women were barred from workshops during casting. So the casting of metal objects was seen as a form of birth. If something similar applied in the British Bronze Age, which seems highly probable to me, then it is not surprising that newly cast but flawed swords were consigned to the waters in a special place. They had been ‘born’, and most probably named, too, and therefore required appropriate disposal, with due reverence.”
― The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths
― The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Heathens, Pagans ...: Celtic/Brythonic Paganism | 13 | 159 | Dec 05, 2014 01:12AM | |
The Book Vipers: Group Non-Fiction Read - September 2016 - Sapiens - SPOILERS ALLOWED | 11 | 31 | Sep 25, 2016 03:57PM | |
The History Book ...: * ARCHITECTURE | 114 | 459 | Jan 23, 2019 07:01PM | |
The Book Vipers: * Last book(s) you acquired | 1295 | 507 | Jan 29, 2020 10:25AM | |
The Lost Challenges: August 2020 "Judge A Book By Its Cover" | 52 | 54 | Sep 08, 2020 11:55AM | |
The History Book ...: MICHELE - PERSONAL READING LIST - "To Be Read" List (2023) | 74 | 342 | Nov 16, 2021 09:20PM | |
The History Book ...: MICHELE'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2020 | 168 | 376 | Jan 03, 2022 06:23PM | |
The Book Vipers: General Book Chat | 1179 | 335 | Jun 02, 2022 02:33AM | |
The History Book ...: * PREHISTORY ~ (STONE, BRONZE, IRON AGES) | 85 | 913 | Jul 18, 2023 01:42PM | |
Green Group: Alternative growing methods | 32 | 20 | Feb 14, 2024 03:52AM |
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