Hostages to fortune

History

Carew, Tim

Asia

Hamilton

The Korean War; The Story of the Fighting Commonwealth Regiments 1950-1953

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Pan Books, London, England

Longest Retreat: Burma Campaign, 1942

Mayflower Books

. with dustjacket, 1970 clean bright copy

The Glorious Glosters,

Leo Cooper

How the regiments got their nicknames

Cooper

Royal Norfolk Regiment (Famous Regiments)

Hamish Hamilton

Excavations at Ashford Prison, just to the east of Staines, uncovered the intriguing story of that part of the landscape from the end of the last Ice Age. Flowing through the site was a tributory of the River Ash, itself a tributory of the Thames. It attracted the attentions of transient groups of hunter-gatherers and later a Neolithic ceremonial monument was built adjacent to it, on a slight promontory of higher land. During the Bronze Age the site was incorporated into an extentsive system of fields and boundaries stretching right across the west London gravel terraces. Geared towards the control of livestock, perhaps brought to graze on the lush pastureland of the valleys, the fields signify the start of intensive and perhaps centrally controlled agricultural production. The first evidence of permanent settlement found dated to the Iron Age when a series of roundhouses, pits, and other structures were built next to the old monument, perhaps in reverence to it. The Roman period saw the end of settlement and the site reverted to exclusively agricultural use, a role that it played up until the 19th century. Subsequently an orphanage and then a prison occupied the site. These were demolished in 2002 for the construction of Bronzefield Prison, thus enabling the current excavations to be undertaken.

Unlocking the Landscape: Archaeological Investigations at Ashford Prison, Middlesex

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Pre-Construct Archaeology

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