{"product_id":"secret-britain-isbn-9780711253469","title":"Secret Britain","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A cornucopia of [Britain's] weirdest and most wonderful archaeological sites and artefacts.\" Sir Tony Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the enchanting mysteries behind them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth-century witch bottle… Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange places and objects that hint at a \u003cb\u003edeep and enduring relationship with the mystical\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecret Britain\u003c\/i\u003e offers an \u003cb\u003eexpertly guided tour of Britain’s most fascinating mysteries\u003c\/b\u003e: archaeological sites and artefacts that take us deep into the lives of the many different peoples who have inhabited the island over the millennia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Illustrated with beautiful photographs, the wonders include buried treasure, stone circles and geoglyphs, outdoor places of worship, caves filled with \u003cb\u003emedieval carvings, and enigmatic tools to divine the future\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Explore famous sites such as Stonehenge and Glastonbury, but also discover: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Lindow Man bog body, showing neatly trimmed hair and manicured fingernails despite having been killed 2,000 years ago \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Uffington White Horse, a horse-shaped geoglyph maintained by an unbroken chain of people for 3,000 years \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Roman baby’s bronze cockerel, an underworld companion for a two-year-old who died sometime between AD 100–200 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e St Leonard’s Ossuary, home to 1,200 skulls and a vast stack of human bones made up of around 2,000 people who died from the 1200s to the 1500s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Wenhaston Doom painting, an extraordinary medieval depiction of the Last Judgement painted on a chancel arch \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is the perfect way to find out about this island's unique story through the \u003cb\u003efascinating objects and locations left by people from the past\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891926331621,"sku":"NP9780711253469","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/21f75e1a-60ef-42f8-8423-abcb014bef98.jpg?v=1767875197","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/secret-britain-isbn-9780711253469","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}