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Miss Layard excavates:
the Palaeolithic site at Foxhall Road, Ipswich, 1903-1905

authors
Mark White
& Steven Plunkett
with
contributions by Peter Allen and Anne O'Connor
| foreword |
Derek
Roe |
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ISBN
09535418-8-6 |
| publication
date |
2005 |
| description |
Hardback.
xiv prelims 196 pp, 79 figures, 40 tables |
| price |
GB
£48.00 US $99.00 |
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Between
1903 and 1905 Miss Nina Frances Layard conducted exemplary
excavations of an outstanding Palaeolithic site on plateau
gravels above Ipswich. Here, Palaeolithic humans gathered
around the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving
behind stone tools and manufacturing waste. Many remarkable
pictures emerge from this book: of the excavator, an Edwardian
lady of great determination and skill; of the site itself,
which might well have been on a par with Boxgrove had it been
discovered today; of the piecing together of Miss Layard's
lost archive by Steven Plunkett; of the meeting of two enthusiasts
and their decision to write this book - and last but by no
means least - of the remarkable archaeological evidence. The
authors have assembled a jigsaw of magnificent proportions:
their detective work has enabled them to return a neglected
but truly significant site to its rightful place in the canon
of British Palaeolithic archaeology.
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Western Academic & Specialist Press Ltd 2002
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