Sark

Barry Cunliffe was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. He has worked on many of the iconic British excavations including Fishbourne Roman Palace, Danebury Hillfort and Hengistbury Head. He is an authority on the Iron Age and the Celts, and the author of many scholarly and popular publications including The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe, Britain Begins, and The Celts, A Very Short Introduction. archaeologist and artefact specialist and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading.

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Part 1 Sark through time

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The Island

1.3 The Island Story in Outline

1.4 The Discovery of the Island’s Archaeological Heritage

1.5 The Archaeology of Sark: the Sites

1.6 The Archaeology of Sark: Material Culture

1.7 Sark in the Wider World: Remoteness and Connectivity

 

Part 2 The Excavations

2.1 Tanquerel Field (Site GS22): 2005–8 and 2011–14

2.2 Gaudinerie Field (Site GS21): 2009–11

2.3 The Seigneurie (Site GS67): 2013–16

2.4 Little Sark Standing Stone (Site LS3): 2015–17

2.5 The Mill Mound (Site GS2.3): 2015

2.6 Clos de La Tour (Site GS27): 2015

2.7 Eperquerie Quarry (Site GS11.1): 2007

2.8 The Plaisance (Site GS63): 2016

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Part 3 Supporting Data

3.1 Gazetteer of Sites and Finds by Barry Cunliffe and Andrew Prevel

3.2 Geophysical Surveys: 2005 and 2009 by Andy Payne

3.3 Radiocarbon Dates by Mike Dee

3.4 Petrographical Sampling of Artefacts and in situ Rocks from Sark

by R.A. Ixer

3.5 Analysis of an Early Bronze Age axe from Little Sark by Peter Bray and Brian Gilmour

3.6 Chemical analysis of Late Bronze Age Metalwork from Tanquerel Field by Peter Northover

3.7 The Discovery of the Sark Hoard by Richard Axton

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Part 4 Online data prepared by Wendy Morrison