Secret Britain

<I><B>"A cornucopia of our weirdest and most wonderful archaeological sites and artefacts. They make you feel proud to be a citizen of these gloriously intriguing isles." </B></I><B>Sir Tony Robinson</B><BR/><BR/><B>An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle… anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them.</B><BR/><BR/> Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. <I>Secret Britain</I> offers an <B>expertly guided tour of Britain’s most fascinating mysteries</B>: archaeological sites and artefacts that take us deep into the lives of the many different peoples who have inhabited the island over the millennia.<BR/><BR/> Illustrated with <B>beautiful photographs</B>, the wonders include <B>buried treasure</B>, <B>stone circles</B> and <B>geoglyphs</B>, <B>outdoor places of worship</B>, caves filled with medieval carvings, and <B>enigmatic tools</B> to divine the future. Explore famous sites such as <B>Stonehenge</B> and <B>Glastonbury</B>, but also discover: <ul><li> The Lindow Man bog body, showing neatly trimmed hair and manicured fingernails despite having been killed 2,000 years ago </li><li> The Uffington White Horse, a horse-shaped geoglyph maintained by an unbroken chain of people for 3,000 years </li><li> A roman baby’s bronze cockerel, an underworld companion for a two-year-old who died sometime between AD 100–200 </li><li> St Leonard’s Ossuary, home to 1,200 skulls and a vast stack of human bones made up of around 2,000 people who died from the 1200s to the 1500s </li><li> The Wenhaston Doom painting, an extraordinary medieval depiction of the Last Judgement painted on a chancel arch </li></ul> Explore Britain’s secret history and discover why these places still resonate today.