The Archaeology of Cornwall
By Dr Caradoc Peters

Dr Caradoc Peters’ new book was commissioned by Cornwall Editions and is now available for immediate delivery. Dr Peters’ approach is as far from the ‘dry-as-dust’ school of archaeology as Bude is from St Buryan. He covers a vast time-scale, from pre-history to the present, bringing to life the social structures and the shifting patterns of livelihood of the different phases of history shadowed forth by the fragments retrieved from the soil and the sea and the marks in the ground left by our ancestors.
He develops a theme of the ever-changing view of history – can we really know what the ‘facts’ were, or can we only ever see the past through the prism of the different ages? What impact does the perspective of the 18 th-century antiquarians have on our own understanding? Are we still seeing the past through Victorian eyes? Caradoc Peters questions some of the conventional views and reinterprets our landscape in fascinating ways, offering new insights and fresh interpretations. Caradoc Peters was born in Redruth, Cornwall and has been a Lecturer in Archaeology at Truro College since 1998.

THE COLLECTABLE EDITION The Archaeology of Cornwall is the second volume in our collection of fine editions. Matching The Cornish Family, it is quarter-bound in the same colour cloth with gold blocking on the spine, silk head and tail bands and a silk page-marker bound into the book. The price of this superb large-format book (11.5” x 8”/ 290mm x 220mm) is £49.95 /US$89.95 /A$124.95 / C$112.95 plus postage and packing. This edition is a specially illustrated luxury edition with a limited print run.