86pp booklet in light card covers with canvas taped spine, type script. 8vo. Covers are a little faded and marked, gently rubbed on edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A collection of essays on archaeology in the West Midlands, gather together in appreciation of archaeologist Phil Barker (1920-2000). Barker was a life long archaeologist, founding Rescue and the Institute of Field Archaeologists and the Castles Studies Group, and academic at Birmingham University. His major excavation projects were at Wroxeter Roman City, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire and Hen Domen, the site of a motte and bailey castle in Powys. Essays in this collection include In the Steps of a Master: Philip Barker and the Future of Archaeological Excavation; Life after Wroxeter: A Medievalist's View of the Roman Town; Hen Domen Compared - The Evidence for Wooden Castle Buildings in the England and Wales etc.
