Anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain’s most intriguing ancient places and artifacts and explores the enchanting mysteries behind them. 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 deep and enduring relationship with the mystical.  Secret Britain offers an expertly guided tour of Britain’s most fascinating mysteries: archaeological sites and artifacts that take us deep into the lives of the many different peoples who have inhabited the island over the millennia. Illustrated 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: The Lindow Man bog body, showing neatly trimmed hair and manicured fingernails despite having been killed 2,000 years ago; The Uffington White Horse, a horse-shaped geoglyph maintained by an unbroken chain of people for 3,000 years; A Roman baby’s bronze cockerel, an underworld companion for a two-year-old who died sometime between AD 100–200; 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; The Wenhaston Doom painting, an extraordinary medieval depiction of the Last Judgement painted on a chancel arch. Tons of interesting sites and objects in short paragraphs. Published at $27.00, our price only $16.95! A deluxe all color book imported from Britain.

SECRET BRITAIN: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past By Mary-Ann Ochota. 240 Pages. 8x10 Hardback. Illustrated. All Color. Bibliography. Index.