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CAIRNS, FIELDS, AND CULTIVATION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT UPLANDS
Written by Jamie Quartermaine; Roger H. Leech.
Stock no. 1828368
Published by Oxford Archaeology North. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition.

This volume presents the results of a programme of detailed archaeological survey undertaken in the Lake District between 1982 and 1989, mainly on the fells above the west Cumbria coastal plain. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour photos and maps. CD containing detailed plans contained in pocket to rear. ISBN: 9781907686078. Corners lightly bumped. Base of spine lightly shelf-worn, lower edge of rear board has a couple of minor knocks. Previous owner's initials and date to top corner of front endpaper. Else contents clean. CD is present.

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THE MEDIEVAL FORTIFIED BUILDINGS OF CUMBRIA: AN ILLUSTRATED GAZETTEER AND RESEARCH GUIDE
Written by D.R. Perriam; J. Robinson.
Stock no. 1828363
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

A comprehensive study of all the various types of defensible structures in the county from complex castles to dykes in the period 1066-1603. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1873124236. Corners of covers lightly rubbed & lightly creased. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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CLAY DABBINS: VERNACULAR BUILDINGS OF THE SOLWAY PLAIN
Written by Nina Jennings.
Stock no. 1828330
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

The mud buildings of the English Solway Plain known locally as "Dabbins" or "Daubins" are little known outside the immediate area, but they continued to be built until the early years of the twentieth century. The author has studied in detail most of the 150 or so farmhouses, cottages and farm buildings which remain and has attempted to trace their development in form and in constructional methods. These were peasant buildings, build by their owners for their own use, and they continue to provide warm, comfortable, well-insulated homes to this day. Green cardwraps. B/w photos and plans. ISBN: 1873124384. Initials and date in ink to half-title page else contents clean.

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THE LOWLAND WETLANDS OF CUMBRIA (NORTH WEST WETLANDS SURVEY 6)
Written by D. Hodgkinson; E. Huckerby; R. Middleton; C.E. Wells.
Stock no. 1828328
Published by Lancaster University Archaeological Unit. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

The results of a survey, spread over the years 1991-1997, of the archaeological and palaeoecological significance of the lowland wetlands of Cumbria. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos & maps. 4 map figures included in rear pocket. ISBN: 1862200823. Some light scuffing to rear cover. Initials & date in ink to top corner of title page else contents clean.

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MEDIEVAL CARLISLE (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Henry Summerson.
Stock no. 1828316
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century. Two volumes (complete). Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 187312418X. Text block of both volumes lightly browned, minor foxspots to top edge. Front endpaper of both volumes has a small, neat name & date in ink. Else contents are clean. Dustwrappers are both slightly faded and lightly scuffed.

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THE EARLY IRON INDUSTRY OF FURNESS AND DISTRICT
Written by Alfred Fell.
Stock no. 1828308
Published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

Cass Library of Industrial Classics No. 21. Facsimile of original edition published in 1908. An Historical and Descriptive Account from the Earliest Times to the End of the 18th Century with An Account of Furness Ironmasters in Scotland, 1726-1800. Burgundy cloth boards, Black title label with gilt title to spine, gilt title to front. Spine lightly faded. Corners lightly rubbed. Initials and date in ink to front endpaper. Text block slightly grubby.

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ELIZABETHAN KESWICK
Written by W.G. Collingwood.
Stock no. 1828286
Published by Michael Moon. 1st thus 1987. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Extracts from the Original Account Books, 1564-1577, of the German Miners in the Archives of Ausburg. Transcribed and translated by Collingwood. The everyday comings and going of the German miners working in Keswick in the sixteenth century. Facsimile of the 1912 edition in a small print run of 500 un-numbered copies. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0904131327. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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CUMBRIA: CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Matthew Hyde.
Stock no. 1828227
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2010. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Pevsner Architectural Guides. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos, b/w drawings. ISBN: 9780300126631. Name initials and date in ink to front endpaper. Small amount of surface paper damage to gutter edge of front endpaper caused by removal of label (not bad). Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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LANDSCAPE AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CUMBRIA
Written by Angus Winchester.
Stock no. 1327873
Published by John Donald Publishers Ltd.. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The change in the landscape across the medieval period and examining the social and economic forces that underlay that change. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps. 178 pages. ISBN: 0859761797. Spine bumped. Initials and date in biro to title-page.

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STAINMORE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A NORTH PENNINE PASS
Written by Blaise Vyner; Pip Robinson; Richard Annis; John Pickin; et al.
Stock no. 1828078
Published by Tees Archaeology. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Large format. Cardwraps. Tees Archaeology Monograph Series Volume 1. An archaeological survey of Bowes Moor, Co. Durham, undertaken in conjunction with the improvement of the A66 Trans-Pennine Trunk Road. B/w photos and diagrams. A couple of fold-out pages. ISBN: 0953274705. A few grubby marks to covers. Corners lightly rubbed. Name & date in ink to half-title page. Contents clean.

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THE ALSTON BRANCH
Written by Stanley C. Jenkins.
Stock no. 1327101
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Oakwood Library of Railway History No. 80. ISBN: 0853614008. Slight rubbing to cover edges and light crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents clean.

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LAKELAND (NN 92)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1326720
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The wildlife of Cumbria. New Naturalist series no. 92. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 000711303X. Foxing to top edge of textblock else a fine copy in a fine wrapper.

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