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Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver.
Two Men in a Trench:
Battlefield Archaeology - The Key to Unlocking the Past.
London: Michael Joseph, 2002.
ISBN 0718144740.
Hardback, stitch bound.
197x252x28mm.
352pp, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour.
English.
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Battlefields
are
the untold story of British archaeology. As the sites of events which
took
place over hours rather than years, they have long been considered
lacking
in archaeological riches. However, recent pioneering work has shown
that
battlefields can provide dramatic revelations about a battle's course
once
the archaeologists get digging beneath the surface.
This
is where
Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver step in. As battlefield archaeologists
they
are in a unique position to challenge both the historical viewpoint and
contemporary eyewitness accounts.
In Two
Men
in a Trench, Tony and Neil visit the sites of six major British
battles,
from Shrewsbury to Culloden, and carry out a full archaeological
investigation
at each. As they uncover artefacts abandoned in the heat and chaos of
battle
they closely follow the progress of each engagement and answer key
historical
questions, sometimes totally revising the accepted version of events.
Each
chapter is a fully framed investigation and follows an episode of the
BBC
television series. By using archaeology to unlock the secrets of the
past,
Tony and Neil prove that soldiers do not pass through fields of
conflict
like shadows, and in the process they show that battlefields are some
of
our most important national monuments.
Covers
the battles
of Shrewsbury (1403), Barnet (1471), Flodden (1513), Newark (1642-6),
Culloden
(1746), and the Firth of Forth (1939).
A
word from
Tony and Neil ...
"Archaeologists
are historians with the gloves off. We excavate the remains of houses,
churches, temples, castles, and tombs in the quest for evidence. These
sites can tell us about how people lived and even how they treated
their
dead. Battlefields differ from all of these in that they tell us about
where, when and how people actually died. When we discover objects
dropped
by soldiers, be they the arrowheads or bullets that they used in
battle,
we may be looking at the movements and actions of a person in the last
hours or even moments of his life. War is one of the defining
characteristics
of the human species. As battlefield archaeologists, we are exploring
the
dark side of the human character."
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