Books

The author is a respected researcher in the field of Anglo‐Saxon and Viking material culture, with more than a decade at the forefront of object i...

From the author of Medieval Artefacts, this exciting new title is produced in full colour with over 450 Celtic and Roman artefacts beautifully ill...

Medieval Artefacts - This indispensable reference book by Nigel Mills spans the period 1066-1500. It contains over 300 beautiful illustrations, al...

This great book covers the period following on from Celtic & Roman Artefacts.Together with "Celtic & Roman Artefacts" and "Medieval Artefac...

Cleaning Coins & Artefacts by David Villanueva sets out to show you what you can safely do to clean & preserve metal detector finds. Whils...

Every detectorist dreams of finding a hoard and this new book by celebrated author David Villanueva will increase your chances of doing so.  The r...

Formerly published as "Metal Artefacts of Antiquity”, now re-printed as a great aid to identification and dating of metal detecting finds.This is ...

This is the perfect book for anyone interested in metal detecting, Written by Dave Crisp, Finder of the 2010 Frome Hoard, it gives invaluable info...

This is the definitive reference work on English Groats, written by Ivan Buck, covering the groat from its introduction in the reign of Edward I (1...

The Celts left no written records and the only historical accounts we have of them derive mainly from Roman writers. This makes archaeological fin...

For about 150 years, Britons minted their own tribal coins until the Romans stopped them in AD 43. During this brief period, about 100 rulers of ...

John Lynn, better known as the 'Norfolk Wolf', has become one of the country's leading authorities on metal detecting. His many years experience a...

Site research, it seems, is one of the more neglected aspects of our hobby. Why should one field be productive of finds year after year and yet...

Successful sites, according to most metal detectorists, are those with the potential to produce large quantities of quality coins and artefacts fro...

In this significant book, Brett Hammond builds on the success of the previous volumes, illustrating the social, military, economic and religious d...

This beautiful hardback book is an excellent reference guide to identifying medieval coins. Containing over 530 wonderful colour photographs toget...

IDENTIFYING DETECTOR FINDS by Brian Read This fantastic A4 Hardback book is a must have for anyone trying to identify metal detecting finds. Wi...

Buttons are now part of our daily lives, but few people realise they have a history stretching back over 2,500 years with buttons being used in...

With over 800 illustrations this book is intended to help with the identification of buckles which are by far the largest category of medieval and ...

‘Now coins of the Iceni are easier to identify, easier to understand’   Coins of the Iceni (COI) is the most convenient, most comprehensive catalog...

Spink Coins of England and the United Kingdom 58th Edition 2023 (Pre decimal volume - Hardback) Coins of England and the United Kingdom remains t...

This beautiful new A4 Hardback book looks at the artefacts from the period leading up to the end of Roman rule in Britain. The early chapters seek ...

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of Q...

DISCOVERING JEWELLERY A great new book from Greenlight Publishing  If you like the Finds Identified series of books then you will love Discovering...