This guide, designed primarily for the `amateur travelling by car', provides a well-illustrated snapshot of the Palaeolithic to Roman period in Britain. Almost three hundred colour photographs of sites, places and finds, are accompanied by Barry Marsden's commentary on the history of the prehistoric and Roman people and culture of Britain.

Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the application of archaeological approaches to agrarian history has made the subject central to our understanding of the prehistoric period. Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the application of archaeological approaches to agrarian history has made the subject central to our understanding of the prehistoric period.