Miss Layard Excavates
Subtitle: The Palaeolithic Site At Foxhall Road, Ipswich, 1903-1905
Contributors: Peter Allen (Contributor); Anne O'Connor (Contributor)
Publisher: Western Academic and Specialist Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780953541881
Subjects: European archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Archaeology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Suffolk; Ipswich; England; Paleolithic period
Description: "Between 1903 and 1905 Miss Nina Frances Layard conducted exemplary excavations of an outstanding Palaeolithic site on plateau gravels above Ipswich. Here, Palaeolithic humans gathered around the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving behind stone tools and manufacturing waste. Many remarkable pictures emerge from this book: of the excavator, an Edwardian lady of great determination and skill; of the site itself, which might well have been on a par with Boxgrove had it been discovered today; of the piecing together of Miss Layard's lost archive by Steven Plunkett; of the meeting of two enthusiasts and their decision to write this book; and last but by no means least, of the remarkable archaeological evidence.

The authors have assembled a jigsaw of magnificent proportions: their detective work has enabled them to return a neglected but truly significant site to its rightful place in the canon of British Palaeolithic archaeology."--Jacket.