Vere Gordon Childe: Skara Brae: A Pictish Village in Orkney (1931)

£122.50

1st ed.. Hardcover. Only excavation monograph by Childe, a very good communicator but not the most enthusiastic digger. Actually a Neolithic site – grooved ware.. 1st ed.

Condition: Used – Good. Marked AMA, minor spotting on opening pages. ISBN: none. Box Arch03

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From the library of the archaeologist Arthur ApSimon (1927-2019). Reminiscences and obituaries in Salon (Society of Antiquaries), Mike Pitts’ Digging Deeper, Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelæological Society, Cornish Archaeology (paywall).

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A watercolour of Stonehenge by the young Arthur ApSimon.