{"product_id":"secret-britain-unearthing-our-mysterious-past","title":"Secret Britain: Unearthing our Mysterious Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth-century witch bottle… anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. \u003ci\u003eSecret Britain\u003c\/i\u003e offers an expertly guided tour of Britain’s most fascinating mysteries: 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\u003eIllustrated with beautiful photographs, the wonders include buried treasure, stone circles and geoglyphs, outdoor places of worship, caves filled with medieval carvings, and enigmatic tools to divine the future. Explore famous sites such as Stonehenge and Glastonbury, but also discover:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lindow Man bog body, showing neatly trimmed hair and manicured fingernails despite having been killed 2,000 years ago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Uffington White Horse, a horse-shaped geoglyph maintained by an unbroken chain of people for 3,000 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 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\u003eSt 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\u003eThe Wenhaston Doom painting, an extraordinary medieval depiction of the Last Judgement painted on a chancel arch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore Britain’s secret history and discover why these places still resonate today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilderness Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58264249074046,"sku":"9780711288850","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4096\/7550\/files\/SecretBritain.jpg?v=1792445067","url":"https:\/\/wildernessbooks.co.uk\/products\/secret-britain-unearthing-our-mysterious-past","provider":"Wilderness Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}