1.1 A map showing how Britain gradually separated from the continent at the end of the Ice Age.
1.2 Floor plans of houses built by hunter-gatherers in the Mesolithic period.
1.3 A general plan of the Star Carr settlement.
1.4 A plan of the Star Carr early Mesolithic house.
2.1 Map of Ireland showing the number of Mesolithic sites known in 2000.
3.1 A general plan of the Etton causewayed enclosure, Cambridgeshire.
3.2 A complete Neolithic pottery jar from Etton, Cambridgeshire.
4.1 Part of the Neolithic settlement at Durrington Walls.
4.2 A Druid service at Stonehenge. (Copyright © Wiltshire County Council.)
4.3 Ground plan of the Hazleton North long cairn, Gloucestershire.
4.4 Two of the five Beakers found in the grave of the ‘Amesbury Archer’.
5.1 Outlines of tool cutting-edges used to work timbers at Seahenge, Norfolk.
5.3 A plan of Bronze Age features at Flag Fen.
6.1 A plan of the site at Bradley Fen, near Whittlesey, Peterborough.
6.2 A plan of prehistoric finds from the power station site at Fengate.
6.3 The decorated back of a late Iron Age bronze mirror from Holcombe, Devon.
7.4 Plan of the hillfort at Yeavering Bell, Northumberland.
8.1 Map showing the known oppida of late Iron Age Britain.
8.2 Map of Roman villas in Britain.
1. Cliff top at Howick, Northumberland.
2. Hornsea Mere, Holderness, south-east Yorkshire.
4. Recording waterlogged deposits in the Etton enclosure ditch.
5. View of a waterlogged segment of enclosure ditch at Etton.
6. A length of twisted flax twine from the enclosure ditch at Etton.
7. A piece of partially folded birch bark from the enclosure ditch at Etton.
9. A small group of Neolithic pottery fragments from a single vessel.
10. Broken fragment of quern-stone in a row of offerings in the Etton enclosure ditch.
11. A large, complete, saddle quern-stone from the Etton enclosure.
12. House 1 at Skara Brae, Orkney.
13. Top stone found at the bottom of the pit at the Etton enclosure.
15. The forecourt of Wayland’s Smithy long barrow, in Oxfordshire.
16. Nympsfield long barrow, Gloucestershire.
17. Seven Barrows, near Lambourn, Berkshire.
18. ‘Seahenge’, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
19. Lifting the central inverted oak tree during the excavation of Seahenge.
20. The timbers of the Flag Fen post alignment under excavation.
21. Bronze shears and their oak ‘shoe’ box, from the Power Station at Flag Fen.
22. Three Bronze Age items from Flag Fen.
23. Quern-stone from Wales or west England.
24. A near-complete Late Bronze Age jar.
25. The ramparts of the Iron Age hillfort at Ladle Hill, near Newbury, Hampshire.
26. A small ‘burial’ cairn on Roughtor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
27. Reconstruction of a Bronze Age house at Flag Fen, Peterborough.
28. Excavations at Welland Bank Quarry, near Market Deeping, south Lincolnshire.
29. A close-up of the ‘dark earth’ at Welland Bank Quarry.
Unless otherwise indicated, photographs are courtesy of the author.
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