Monumentality in Later Prehistory

Harold Mytum MA (Cambridge) DPhil (Oxford) FSA is Director of the Centre for Manx Studies and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His fieldwork at Castell Henllys and other regional sites has continued over 30 years, partly within a field school training context (Global Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools. Constructions of knowledge and experience. New York: Springer, 2012). He has written numerous articles and book chapters on reconstruction and public interpretation at Castell Henllys, and a monograph, journal articles, and book chapters on the later prehistory of the region (Williams and Mytum Llawhaden, Dyfed: Excavations on a group of small defended enclosures, 1980-4. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994). Harold is also well known for his historical archaeology research (Recording and Analysing Graveyards. Council for British Archaeology Handbook 15. York: Council for British Archaeology, 2000; Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004; Carr and Mytum eds Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire. New York: Routledge, 2012; Mytum and Carr eds Prisoners of War: archaeology, memory and heritage of 19th- and 20th-century mass internment. New York: Springer, 2013).

Chapter 1- Enclosure and Monumentality: Hillforts in British and European Late Prehistory.- Chapter 2- Castell Henllys in its Temporal, Cultural and Intellectual Contexts.- Chapter 3 – The Palisade and Entrance.- Chapter 4- The Interior: Roundhouses, Scoops and Activity Areas.- Chapter 5- A Boundary In Stones: The Chevaux-De-Frise.- Chapter 6- The Palisaded Settlement: Its Size, Character and Environmental Impact.- Chapter 7- Previous Research on Hillfort Ramparts and Ditches.- Chapter 8- Ramparts and Ditches on the Western Side of the Fort.- Chapter 9- The Building of a Rampart: Stratigraphy and Action Unpicked.- Chapter 10- Encircling the Promontory.- Chapter 11-Ramparts and Ditches: Evidence and Inference.- Chapter 12- Crossing Thresholds: Entrances in Stone.- Chapter 13- Crossing Thresholds: From Monumental to Non-Monumental.- Chapter14- An Epilogue: The Late Roman or post-Roman refurbishment.- Chapter 15- Context, Function, Meaning.