Britain AD

'Controversial deceptively clever and a damn good read.' BBC History Magazine Praise for 'Britain B.C.': 'Francis Pryor has given us a remarkable, imaginative and persuasive account of those other Britons...its enthusiastic and confident approach deserves to be very influential.' TLS 'A compulsive narrative intertwining prehistory, the excitement of discovery and personalities. It bounds along, wonderfully enlivened by Pryor's earthy enthusiasm.' New Scientist Praise for 'Seahenge': 'A magnificent book...a vivid story, superbly told. It gives a wonderfully clear explanation of how archaeology works, written in plain language which all can understand and enjoy.' Magnus Magnusson

Dr Francis Pryor has spent thirty years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. From 1980 he turned his attention to pre-Roman religion and has excavated barrows, 'henges', and a large ceremonial centre dating to 3800 bc. In 1982, while working in a drainage dyke at Flag Fen, on the outskirts of Peterborough, he discovered the waterlogged timbers of a Bronze Age religious site. In 1987, with his wife Maisie Taylor, he set up the Fenland Archaeological Trust, which opened Flag Fen to the public.