Darvill, T., 2011. Prehistoric Gloucestershire: Forest and Vales
and High Blue Hills. 2nd. Stroud: Amberley Press. Full text not
available from this repository. Official URL:
http://www.amberleybooks.com/shop/article_97818486...
Gloucestershire is one of Britain’s richest counties in terms of
its archaeological heritage. Scattered across the high blue
hills of the Cotswolds, along the valleys of the Severn, Avon,
and Wye, and through the Forest of Dean is wealth of sites and
monuments that allow us to understand the many prehistoric
communities who once lived, worked, and died there. From the
camps and caves occupied by hunter-gatherer groups visiting the
area during the last Ice Age, through the long barrows and camps
of the first farmers, to the massive hillforts and enclosures
built by Celtic chieftains in the centuries before the Roman
Conquest, this book charts the story of the landscape and its
inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million
years. Drawing on the results of excavations at fa