{"product_id":"9780711288850","title":"Secret Britain","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A cornucopia of our weirdest and most wonderful archaeological sites and artefacts. They make you feel proud to be a citizen of these gloriously intriguing isles.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Tony Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn Ice Age cannibal's skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle... anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them.\u003c\/b\u003e  Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. \u003ci\u003eSecret Britain\u003c\/i\u003e offers an \u003cb\u003eexpertly guided tour of Britain's most fascinating mysteries\u003c\/b\u003e: archaeological sites and artefacts that take us deep into the lives of the many different peoples who have inhabited the island over the millennia.  Illustrated with \u003cb\u003ebeautiful photographs\u003c\/b\u003e, the wonders include \u003cb\u003eburied treasure\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003estone circles\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003egeoglyphs\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eoutdoor places of worship\u003c\/b\u003e, caves filled with medieval carvings, and \u003cb\u003eenigmatic tools\u003c\/b\u003e to divine the future. Explore famous sites such as \u003cb\u003eStonehenge\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eGlastonbury\u003c\/b\u003e, but also discover: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Lindow Man bog body, showing neatly trimmed hair and manicured fingernails despite having been killed 2,000 years ago \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Uffington White Horse, a horse-shaped geoglyph maintained by an unbroken chain of people for 3,000 years \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A roman baby's bronze cockerel, an underworld companion for a two-year-old who died sometime between AD 100-200 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e St Leonard's Ossuary, home to 1,200 skulls and a vast stack of human bones made up of around 2,000 people who died from the 1200s to the 1500s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Wenhaston Doom painting, an extraordinary medieval depiction of the Last Judgement painted on a chancel arch \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e Explore Britain's secret history and discover why these places still resonate today.","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59658164863308,"sku":"9780711288850","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9780711288850-4258ae088327f54f_front.webp?v=1793374840","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/en-eu\/products\/9780711288850","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}