Westward on the high-hilled plains : : the later prehistory of the West Midlands / / edited by Derek Hurst.

• Superior document: The Making of the West Midlands.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hurst, J. D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England ;, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : : Oxbow Books,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Making of the West Midlands.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to promine...

Table of Contents

• Foreign language summaries
• Introduction: Westward on the high-hilled plains / Niall Sharples
• Cows, beans and the view : landscape and farming of the West Midlands in later prehistory / Elizabeth Pearson
• "The Bronze Age has lagged behind" : late Bronze Age settlement and landscape in the West Midlands / Hal Dalwood
• Burnt mounds and beyond : the later prehistory of Birmingham and the Black Country / Mike Hodder
• Any more old Iron Age? : an archaeological resource assessment for the middle Bronze Age to Iron Age in Warwickshire and Solihull / Stuart C. Palmer
• Herefordshire : from the middle Bronze Age to the later Iron Age / Peter Dorling, Keith Ray, and Paul White
• Fugitive pieces : towards a new understanding of the later second and first millennia BC in Shropshire / Andy Wigley
• The late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Staffordshire : the torc of the Midlands? / Chris Wardle
• Middle Bronze Age to late Iron Age Worcestershire / Derek Hurst
• An overview of the ceramic basis within the broader West Midlands region / Annette Hancocks
• The potential of the portable antiquities scheme and treasure finds for understanding the Iron Age in the West Midlands / Angie Bolton
• Later prehistoric production and trade in the West Midlands / Derek Hurst
• Touching the void : Iron Age landscapes and settlement in the West Midlands / Andy Wigley.